Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 429-437

  Cadotte, Marc W ^a,b   Tucker, Caroline M ^c,d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

community assembly; competition; ecophylogenetics; functional ecology; niche

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85016606378     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.03.004     Document Type: Review

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