Dispersal limitation and environmental heterogeneity shape scale-dependent diversity patterns in plant communities

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2425-2432

  Freestone, Amy L ^a,c   Inouye, Brian D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Beta diversity; Community dissimilarity; Dispersal limitation; Environmental heterogeneity; Metacommunity; Patchiness; Scale; Serpentine seep

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; GEOGRAPHY; PLANTS; SOIL;

EID: 33845351449     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2425:DLAEHS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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