From diversity indices to community assembly processes: a test with simulated data
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T. Münkemüller ([email protected]), F. de Bello, S. Lavergne and W. Thuiller, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, UMR CNRS 5553, Univ. Joseph Fourier, BP 53, FR-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. Present address of FDB: Inst. of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic. – C. N. Meynard, INRA, UMR CBGP (INRA/IRD/Cirad/Montpellier SupAgro), Campus international de Baillarguet, CS 30016, FR-34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez Cedex, France. – D. Gravel, Univ. du Québec à Rimouski, Dépt de biologie, chimie et géographie, 300 Allée des Ursulines, QC 5GL 3A1, Canada. – D. Mouillot, UMR 5119 CNRS-UM2-IFREMER-IRD ECOSYM, Univ. Montpellier 2, CC 093, FR-34095 Montpellier, France. Present address of DM: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook Univ., Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia. – N. Mouquet, Inst. des Sciences de l’Evolution, UMR 5554, CNRS, Univ. Montpellier 2, CC 065, Place Eugène Bataillon, FR-34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France.
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