Factors controlling community structure in heterogeneous metacommunities

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 937-944

  Davies, Kendi F ^a   Holyoak, Marcel ^a   Preston, Kim A ^a   Offeman, Valerie A ^a   Lum, Quenby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Diversity; Metacommunity; Protozoa; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; PROTOZOAN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOON;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOA;

PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 68149107572     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01559.x     Document Type: Article

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