Neutrality, niches, and determinants of plankton metacommunity structure across boreal wetland ponds

Ecoscience

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 146-154

  Soininen, Janne ^a   Kokocinski, Mikolaj ^b   Estlander, Satu ^a   Kotanen, Juho ^c   Heino, Jani ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Envoronmental control; Metacommunity; Neutral theory; Phytoplankton; Ponds; Spatial Structure; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ION; NICHE; NITROGEN; PHYTOPLANKTON; WETLAND; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 34347248804     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/1195-6860(2007)14[146:NNADOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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