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SUBMITTER: Boulangeat I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3999639 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boulangeat Isabelle I Gravel Dominique D Thuiller Wilfried W
Ecology letters 20120330 6
Although abiotic factors, together with dispersal and biotic interactions, are often suggested to explain the distribution of species and their abundances, species distribution models usually focus on abiotic factors only. We propose an integrative framework linking ecological theory, empirical data and statistical models to understand the distribution of species and their abundances together with the underlying community assembly dynamics. We illustrate our approach with 21 plant species in the ...[more]