Differences in habitat quality explain nestedness in a land snail meta-community

Oikos

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 351-361

  Hylander, Kristoffer ^a   Nilsson, Christer ^a,b   Jonsson, Bengt Gunnar ^b   Göthner, Tove ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT QUALITY; NESTEDNESS; SNAIL; SPECIALIZATION; TOLERANCE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

GASTROPODA; RIPARIA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 13444263736     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13400.x     Document Type: Article

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