Metacommunity speciation models and their implications for diversification theory

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 864-881

  Hubert, Nicolas ^a   Calcagno, Vincent ^b   Etienne, Rampal S ^c   Mouquet, Nicolas ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Institut Sophia Agrobiotech   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biotic interactions; Dispersal; Diversity dependent diversification; Ecological speciation; Geographic speciation; Habitat filtering; Life history trade offs; Metacommunity dynamics; Neutral models; Species sorting

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DISPERSAL; LIFE HISTORY; MODELING; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84946413822     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12458     Document Type: Review

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