Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2263-2273

  De Bello, Francesco ^a,b,c   Price, Jodi N ^d   Munkemuller, Tamara ^b   Liira, Jaan ^d   Zobel, Martin ^d   Thuiller, Wilfried ^b   Gerhold, Pille ^d,e   Götzenberger, Lars ^d   Lavergne, Sébastien ^b   Lepš, Jan ^c   Zobel, Kristjan ^d   Partel, Meelis ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competitive exclusion; Habitat selection; Limiting similarity; Niche and neutrality; Species pool; Trait convergence; Trait divergence

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; COEXISTENCE; CONVERGENCE; DIVERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84866557135     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1394.1     Document Type: Article

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