Dispersal and species diversity: A meta-analysis

American Naturalist

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 913-924

  Cadotte, Marc William ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Meta analysis; Metacommunity; Richness; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMIGRATION; META-ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; META ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33745683683     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504850     Document Type: Article

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