Maintenance of biodiversity on islands

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1829, 2016, Pages

  Chisholm, Ryan A ^a,b   Fung, Tak ^a   Chimalakonda, Deepthi ^a   O’Dwyer, James P ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Colonization extinction balance; Island biogeography; Niche structure; Small island effect

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; IMMIGRATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; NICHE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MARKOV CHAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; ISLANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84964703619     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0102     Document Type: Article

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