Ecological filtering or random extinction? Beta-diversity patterns and the importance of niche-based and neutral processes following habitat loss

Oikos

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 206-215

  Püttker, Thomas ^a   de Arruda Bueno, Adriana ^b   Prado, Paulo I ^a   Pardini, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Fundação Florestal Planos de Manejo   (Brazil)

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MAMMALIA;

EID: 84922284347     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01018     Document Type: Article

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