Dispersion fields reveal the compositional structure of South American vertebrate assemblages

oleh: Michael K. Borregaard, Gary R. Graves, Carsten Rahbek

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-01-01

Deskripsi

Ecologists continue to debate whether local species assemblages result from habitat filtering or from turnover among the regional species pool. Here the authors develop a “dispersion field” method to mapping species range overlaps, showing that regional turnover processes are key to local assembly.