Spatial aggregation and the species-area relationship across scales

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 313, Issue , 2012, Pages 87-97

  Grilli, Jacopo ^a   Azaele, Sandro ^b   Banavar, Jayanth R ^c   Maritan, Amos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Conspecific aggregation; Field theory for biogeography; Neutral theory; Poisson cluster processes; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSPECIFIC; MACROECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POISSON RATIO; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOMETRY; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; PHENOMENOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE SPECIES ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84865595153     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.07.030     Document Type: Article

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