Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity

Ecosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a,b   Kraft, Nathan J B ^c   Smith, Kevin G ^b   Vellend, Mark ^c   Inouye, Brian D ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Determinism; Species pool; Stochasticity; diversity null model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880298131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00117.1     Document Type: Article

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