Neutral macroecology - Ecology without biology? A review of the neutral model approach

Ecological Questions

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 113-126

  Ulrich, Werner ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ecological drift; Macroecology; Neutral models; Relative abundance distributions; Speciation; Species area relationships; Zero sum multinomial

Indexed keywords

EID: 85039551970     PISSN: 16447298     EISSN: 20835469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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