ABCDE: A basic community dynamics experiment
Mark Davidson Jewell1* and Graham
Bell1,2
1Department of Biology, McGill University; 1205 ave
Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada.
2Redpath Museum, McGill University; 859 Sherbrooke St
West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C4, Canada.
*Corresponding author:
mark.jewell@mail.mcgill.ca,
2629 Connolly St. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. B3L 3M4. 902-329-9609
Authors’ contributions: MDJ performed the experiment and the
analysis. GB conceived the study and developed the analytical procedure.
MDJ wrote the manuscript and GB contributed substantially to revisions.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing
interests.
Data availability: Raw data from which all figures were
generated will be stored in the Dryad repository before publication of
the article.
Type of article: Letters
Number of words in abstract: 142
Number of words in main text: 2582
Number of references: 27
Number of figures/tables: 5
Keywords: community dynamics, ecological drift, Lemnaceae,
niche and neutral processes, species coexistence