Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-23

  Fukami, Tadashi ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Diversification; Eco evolutionary dynamics; Island biogeography; Metacommunity; Succession

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; METAPOPULATION; SPECIES POOL; SUCCESSION;

EID: 84931573729     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110411-160340     Document Type: Article

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