Underdispersion and overdispersion of traits in terrestrial snail communities on islands

Understanding and disentangling different processes underlying the assembly and diversity of communities remains a key challenge in ecology. Species can assemble into communities either randomly or due to deterministic processes. Deterministic assembly leads to species being more similar (underdispe...

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Main Authors: Astor, Tina, Strengbom, Joachim, Berg, Matty P, Lenoir, Lisette, Marteinsdóttir, Bryndís, Bengtsson, Jan
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4201424/