Trade-offs in community ecology: Linking spatial scales and species coexistence

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-80

  Kneitel, Jamie M ^a   Chase, Jonathan M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Community ecology; Diversity; Local and regional scales; Metacommunity; Spatial scales; Species traits; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; SCALE EFFECT; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 0742302381     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00551.x     Document Type: Review

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