Unraveling the interplay of community assembly processes acting on multiple niche axes across spatial scales

American Naturalist

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 593-608

  Trisos, Christopher H ^a,b   Petchey, Owen L ^c   Tobias, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATION NETWORK   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Environmental filtering; Interspecific competition; Neotropical birds; Niche differentiation; Phylogenetic community structure

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS;

AVES;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; PERU; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERU; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84907992475     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/678233     Document Type: Article

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