Effects of site and species characteristics on nested patterns of species composition in sedge meadows

Plant Ecology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 271-278

  Matthews, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Nestedness; Species distribution; Species traits; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FRAGMENTATION; NESTEDNESS; SEDGE; SITE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WETLAND;

EID: 23144448889     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VEGE.0000049107.11273.cb     Document Type: Article

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