Communities in context: The influences of multiscale environmental variation on local ant community structure

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-325

  Spiesman, Brian J ^a,b   Cumming, Graeme S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ants; Community; Generalist; Landscape; Local; Metacommunity; Regional; Sandhill; Spatial scale; Specialist

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GENERALIST; METAPOPULATION; NICHE PARTITIONING; REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY; REPLACEMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIALIST;

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

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 41049086139     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9186-3     Document Type: Article

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