On the roles of time, space and habitat in a boreal small mammal assemblage: Predictably stochastic assembly

Oikos

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-238

  Morris, Douglas W ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES POOL; STOCHASTICITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 17144414171     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13661.x     Document Type: Article

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