Modelling niche and neutral dynamics: On the ecological interpretation of variation partitioning results

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 961-971

  Tuomisto, Hanna ^a   Ruokolainen, Lasse ^b   Ruokolainen, Kalle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84868303530     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07339.x     Document Type: Article

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