Strong species-Environment feedback shapes plant community assembly along environmental gradients

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4119-4128

  Jiang, Jiang ^a   DeAngelis, Donald L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative states; Coexistence; Community assembly; Ecosystem engineer; Limitingsimilarity; Neutral model; Niche; Species zonation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887878792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.784     Document Type: Article

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