A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1291-1299

  Laughlin, Daniel C ^a   Joshi, Chaitanya ^a   van Bodegom, Peter M ^b   Bastow, Zachary A ^c   Fulé, Peter Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Bark thickness; Environmental filtering; Hierarchical Bayesian model; Limiting similarity; Maximum entropy; Specific leaf area; Trait convergence; Trait divergence; Wood density

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTAGONISM; ASSEMBLY RULE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COEXISTENCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEAF AREA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FORECASTING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84867102878     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01852.x     Document Type: Article

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