Linking ecological niche, community ecology and biogeography: Insights from a mechanistic niche model

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2212-2224

  Cabral, Juliano Sarmento ^a   Kreft, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demographic model; Interspecific competition; Metabolic theory; Niche model; Process based stochastic models; Range dynamics; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLEE EFFECT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CARRYING CAPACITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84869880559     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12010     Document Type: Article

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