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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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2014
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4201424/ |