A null-model analysis of the spatio-temporal distribution of earthworm species assemblages in Colombian Grasslands

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 415-427

  Decaëns, Thibaud ^a   Jiménez, Juan José ^b   Rossi, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Interspecific competition; Niche overlap analysis; Scale dependence; Size distribution analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EARTHWORM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GRASSLAND; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORPHOMETRY; NICHE OVERLAP; PASTURE; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 69849104661     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467409006075     Document Type: Article

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