Regional enrichment of local assemblages is robust to variation in local productivity, abiotic gradients, and heterogeneity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-102

  Freestone, Amy L ^a   Harrison, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities; Diversity; Heterogeneity; Plants; Productivity; Regional species pool; Richness; Scale; Serpentine; Wetland

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; LOGISTIC MODELS; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

EID: 33644961266     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00849.x     Document Type: Article

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