Moving beyond abundance distributions: Neutral theory and spatial patterns in a tropical forest

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1802, 2015, Pages

  May, Felix ^a   Huth, Andreas ^a   Wiegand, Thorsten ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Distance decay; Pattern oriented modelling; Point pattern analysis; Spatially explicit neutral model; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FOREST DYNAMICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TROPICAL FOREST;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA OESTE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOREST; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84921982316     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1657     Document Type: Article

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