Community Patterns in Source-Sink Metacommunities

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 544-557

  Mouquet, Nicolas ^a,c   Loreau, Michel ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centre de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Local and regional species richness; Metacommunity; Productivity; Source sink; Species abundance patterns

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0042081627     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378857     Document Type: Article

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