Species co-occurrence, nestedness and guild-environment relationships in stream macroinvertebrates

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1947-1959

  Heino, Jani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Habitat checkerboards; Interspecific competition; Null models; Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349144466     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02250.x     Document Type: Article

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