Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities
By M. Vellend, D. Srivastava, Kathryn M. Anderson, Carissa D. Brown, J. Jankowski, E. Kleynhans, Nathan J B Kraft, A. D. Letaw, A. A. MacDonald, Janet E. Maclean and 3 more. 2014
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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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