An experimental examination of colonization as a generator of biotic nestedness

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 118-124

  Loo, S E ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Quinn, G P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Faunal subsets; Invertebrates; Lakes; Stony substrates

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; NESTEDNESS;

AUSTRALIA;

INVERTEBRATA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0036944616     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0933-5     Document Type: Article

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