The pairwise approach to analysing species co-occurrence

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1029-1035

  Veech, Joseph A ^a  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; C score; Competition; Data randomization; Ecological community; Hypothesis testing; Jared Diamond; Pattern analysis; Presence absence matrix; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASSEMBLY RULE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA SET; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NESTEDNESS; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84900313735     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12318     Document Type: Article

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