Neutral dynamics and cluster statistics in a tropical forest

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Seri, Efrat ^a   Maruvka, Yosef E ^b   Shnerb, Nadav M ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cluster statistics; Dispersal; Neutral metacommunity model; Spatial aggregation; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANNONACEAE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RUBIACEAE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; VIOLACEAE;

ANNONACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RUBIACEAE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VIOLACEAE;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)];

EID: 84869185301     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668125     Document Type: Article

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