β-Diversity of functional groups of woody plants in a tropical dry forest in Yucatan.

Two main theories have attempted to explain variation in plant species composition (β-diversity). Niche theory proposes that most of the variation is related to environment (environmental filtering), whereas neutral theory posits that dispersal limitation is the main driver of β-diversity. In this s...

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Main Authors: Jorge Omar López-Martínez, Lucía Sanaphre-Villanueva, Juan Manuel Dupuy, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni, Jorge Arturo Meave, José Alberto Gallardo-Cruz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3769343?pdf=render