Geographic variation in patterns of nestedness among local stream fish assemblages in Virginia

Oecologia

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 639-649

  Cook, Rosamonde R ^a,b   Angermeier, Paul L ^c   Finn, Debra S ^a   Poff, N LeRoy ^a   Krueger, Kirk L ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nested subsets; Nestedness; Spatial scale; Species assemblages; Stream fish

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; NESTEDNESS; STREAM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; VIRGINIA;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

PISCES;

EID: 4544255375     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1618-z     Document Type: Article

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