Predators temper the relative importance of stochastic processes in the assembly of prey metacommunities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1210-1218

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a   Biro, Elizabeth G ^a   Ryberg, Wade A ^a   Smith, Kevin G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Community assembly; Determinism; Lepomis cyanellus; Local richness; Predation; Regional richness; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; PERCIFORM; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; STATISTICS;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

LEPOMIS CYANELLUS;

EID: 70350060149     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01362.x     Document Type: Article

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