Integrating environmental and spatial processes in ecological community dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1175-1182

  Cottenie, Karl ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body size; Dispersal; Environmental heterogeneity; Mass effects; Meta analysis; Metacommunity theory; Neutral theory; Patch dynamics; Species sorting; Variation decomposition

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PATCH DYNAMICS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 27444440741     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00820.x     Document Type: Article

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