The Role of Disturbance in Natural Communities

1984/11/01 by Wayne P. Sousa, W P Sousa · 2,302 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Abundance (ecology) #Biology #Distribution (mathematics) #Disturbance (geology) #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Environmental resource management #Environmental science #Geography #Mathematics #Natural (archaeology) #Plant and animal studies #Relative abundance distribution #Relative species abundance #Species Distribution and Climate Change

paper · doi:10.1146/annurev.es.15.110184.002033

published in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 15(1), 353-391 (Annual Reviews)

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Abstract

Species distribution models (SDMs) are numerical tools that combine observations of species occurrence or abundance with environmental estimates. They are used to gain ecological and evolutionary insights and to predict distributions across landscapes, ...Read More

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