What are species pools and when are they important?

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 45-67

  Cornell, Howard V ^a   Harrison, Susan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

community assembly; environmental filtering; local diversity; phylogeny; regional diversity; species interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; IMMIGRATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROPAGULE; SPECIES POOL;

EID: 84913539316     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091759     Document Type: Article

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