The Humpbacked Species Richness-Curve: A Contingent Rule for Community Ecology
Functional relationships involving species richness may be unimodal, monotonically increasing, monotonically decreasing, bimodal, multimodal, U-shaped, or with no discernable pattern. The unimodal relationships are the most interesting because they suggest dynamic, nonequilibrium community processes...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2011-01-01
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Series: | International Journal of Ecology |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/868426 |