Demographic trade-offs determine species abundance and diversity

Journal of Plant Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-88

  Zhang, Da Yong ^a   Zhang, Bo Yu ^a,b   Lin, Kui ^a   Jiang, Xinhua ^a   Tao, Yi ^b   Hubbell, Stephen ^c,d   He, Fangliang ^e   Ostling, Annette ^f  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

birth death trade off; ecological drift; fitness equivalence; neutral theory; species coexistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862928465     PISSN: 17529921     EISSN: 1752993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtr039     Document Type: Article

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