Metacommunity patterns of highly diverse stream midges: Gradients, chequerboards, and nestedness, or is there only randomness?

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 590-599

  Heino, Jani ^a,b  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assemblage composition; Assembly rules; Chironomidae; Null models; Streams

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INSECT; STREAM;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; GLEASONIA;

EID: 33745208210     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00728.x     Document Type: Article

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