Metacommunity influences on community richness at multiple spatial scales: A microcosm experiment

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1008-1016

  Cadotte, Marc W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Dispersal; Metacommunity; Migration; Regional effects; Spatial scale; Species diversity; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646130848     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1008:MIOCRA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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