Environmental geometry and heterogeneity-diversity relationships in spatially explicit simulated communities

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 732-744

  Smith, Tyler W ^a,b   Lundholm, Jeremy T ^c  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^c SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Environmental heterogeneity; Simulation; Spatial scale; Species diversity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CEREAL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; GEOMETRY; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84863527788     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01380.x     Document Type: Article

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