Metacommunity models predict the local-regional species richness relationship in a natural system

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1696-1706

  Hugueny, Bernard ^a   Cornell, Howard V ^b   Harrison, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Community; Competition; Daphnia; Extinction; Local richness; Mainland island model; Metacommunity; Regional richness; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; ISLAND; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; ROCK POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

DAPHNIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DAPHNIA; EVALUATION; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DAPHNIA; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWEDEN;

EID: 34548403070     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1884.1     Document Type: Article

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