Evaluating the long-term metacommunity dynamics of tree hole mosquitoes

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2582-2590

  Ellis, Alicia M ^a   Lounibos, L Philip ^b   Holyoak, Marcel ^c  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Florida, USA; Mass effect; Metacommunity; Mosquito; Neutral model; Patch dynamics; Species sorting; Synchrony; Trade off; Tree hole; Turnover

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT TYPE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; METAPOPULATION; MOSQUITO; PATCH DYNAMICS; POPULATION DENSITY; SYNCHRONY; TREEHOLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; MOSQUITO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; TREE;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845402744     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2582:ETLMDO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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