Effects of space partitioning in a plant species diversity model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 251, Issue , 2013, Pages 271-278

  Liao, Jinbao ^a,b,c   Li, Zhenqing ^b   Quets, Jan J ^a   Nijs, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Grid based model; Spatially explicit model; Species coexistence; Species richness; Trait variation; Voronoi partitioning

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; PARTITIONS (BUILDING); PLANTS (BOTANY);

DIVERSITY MAINTENANCE; GRID-BASED MODELING; PLANT SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPACE PARTITIONING; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELING; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAIT VARIATION; VORONOI; VORONOI PARTITIONING;

BIODIVERSITY;

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; IMMIGRATION; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTITIONING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLYGON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84873249031     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.12.030     Document Type: Article

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