Species associations in a species-rich subtropical forest were not well-explained by stochastic geometry of biodiversity.

The stochastic dilution hypothesis has been proposed to explain species coexistence in species-rich communities. The relative importance of the stochastic dilution effects with respect to other effects such as competition and habitat filtering required to be tested. In this study, using data from a...

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Main Authors: Qinggang Wang, Dachuan Bao, Yili Guo, Junmeng Lu, Zhijun Lu, Yaozhan Xu, Kuihan Zhang, Haibo Liu, Hongjie Meng, Mingxi Jiang, Xiujuan Qiao, Handong Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4019537?pdf=render

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