Underdispersion and overdispersion of traits in terrestrial snail communities on islands
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Underdispersion and overdispersion of traits in terrestrial snail communities on islands
Understanding and disentangling different processes underlying the assembly and diversity of communities remains a key challenge in ecology. Species can assemble into communities either randomly or due to deterministic processes. Deterministic assembly leads to species being more similar (underdispersed) or more different (overdispersed) in certain traits than would be expected by chance. Howev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2045-7758,2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1084