Evolving metacommunities: Toward an evolutionary perspective on metacommunities

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1616-1626

  Urban, Mark C ^a   Skelly, David K ^a,b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Coexistence; Community interactions; Contemporary evolution; Evolutionary ecology; Gene flow; Metacommunity; Microgeographic dispersal; Multispecies perspective; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MIGRATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 33746533007     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1616:EMTAEP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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