Competitive exclusion, beta diversity, and deterministic vs. stochastic drivers of community assembly

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1400-1408

  Segre, Hila ^a   Ron, Ronen ^a   De Malach, Niv ^a   Henkin, Zalmen ^b   Mandel, Micha ^a   Kadmon, Ronen ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Community ecology; Functional groups; Habitat productivity; Mediterranean grasslands; Niche vs. neutral processes; Plant competition; Removal experiment; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GRASSLAND; POACEAE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICS;

BIODIVERSITY; GRASSLAND; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84907809644     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12343     Document Type: Article

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