Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

Functional Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 592-599

  Kraft, Nathan J B ^a   Adler, Peter B ^b   Godoy, Oscar ^c   James, Emily C ^b   Fuller, Steve ^b   Levine, Jonathan M ^d  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competition; Functional traits; Habitat filtering; Niche differences; Phylogenetic relatedness; Species pool

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; PERSISTENCE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOLERANCE;

EID: 84929329614     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12345     Document Type: Article

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