Ecology: Return of the niche
Abstract
Two ideas vie for prominence in community ecology - 'niche partitioning' and 'neutral theory'. A survey of patterns of tree abundance in tropical forest prompts fresh thinking on their respective effects.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- July 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1038/454039a
- Bibcode:
- 2008Natur.454...39L