On neutral metacommunity patterns of river basins at different scales of aggregation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Convertino, Matteo ^c   Muneepeerakul, Rachata ^a   Azaele, Sandro ^a   Bertuzzo, Enrico ^b   Rinaldo, Andrea ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAINING; DIFFERENT SCALE; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES; NETWORK STRUCTURES; REGIONAL SCALE; RIVER BASINS; RIVER NETWORK; RUNOFF PRODUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; STRONG INTERACTION; UNIVERSAL SCALING;

BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ELEVATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 70349777452     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007799     Document Type: Article

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