Prevalence of phylogenetic clustering at multiple scales in an African rain forest tree community

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1008-1016

  Parmentier, Ingrid ^a   Réjou Méchain, Maxime ^b   Chave, Jérôme ^b   Vleminckx, Jason ^a   Thomas, Duncan W ^c   Kenfack, David ^d   Chuyong, George B ^e   Hardy, Olivier J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

African rain forest; Clustering; Competition; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Overdispersion; Phylogenetic depth; Phylogenetic structure; Rain forest; Spatial scale; Trees

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURNOVER;

CAMEROON; KORUP NATIONAL PARK; SUD OUEST PROVINCE;

EID: 84903169512     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12254     Document Type: Article

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