Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4376148 Ecological Modelling 2013 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Individual-based was used model to explore facilitation on neutral community. ► Facilitation increases community's abundance by increasing reproductive rates. ► Facilitation has the stabilizing mechanisms by promoting rare species. ► Facilitation causes the decrease of richness from low to medium severity gradients. ► Facilitation has the similar impacts on neutral community and niche community.
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The integration of facilitation into the neutral theory of community assembly
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