Assembly rules and community models for unicellular organisms: Patterns in diatoms of boreal streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 567-577

  Heino, Jani ^a   Soininen, Janne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Co occurrence; Diatoms; Gradients; Nestedness; Streams

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIATOM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

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

ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; GLEASONIA; METAZOA;

EID: 15944411030     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01346.x     Document Type: Article

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