Dispersal and diversity - unifying scale-dependent relationships within the neutral theory

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 942-951

  May, Felix ^a,b   Giladi, Itamar ^c   Ziv, Yaron ^c   Jeltsch, Florian ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVEY;

EID: 84861463660     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20078.x     Document Type: Article

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