Area-heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 17495-17500

  Allouche, Omri ^a   Kalyuzhny, Michael ^a   Moreno Rueda, Gregorio ^b   Pizarro, Manuel ^b   Kadmon, Ronen ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Habitat heterogeneity; Neutral theory; Stochastic model of community dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84867911380     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208652109     Document Type: Article

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