Elements of metacommunity structure of Paraguayan bats: Multiple gradients require analysis of multiple ordination axes

Oecologia

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 781-793

  Presley, Steven J ^a   Higgins, Christopher L ^b   López González, Celia ^c   Stevens, Richard D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Boundary clumping; Coherence; Reciprocal averaging; Species composition

Indexed keywords

BAT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INSECTIVORE; METAPOPULATION; ORDINATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; PARAGUAY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARAGUAY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PARAGUAY; SOUTH AMERICA;

GLEASONIA; MOLOSSIDAE;

EID: 67649199218     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1341-x     Document Type: Article

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