Productivity gradients cause positive diversity - Invasibility relationships in microbial communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1047-1057

  Jiang, Lin ^a,b   Morin, Peter J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Community invasibility; Environmental heterogeneity; Invasive species; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; HETEROGENEITY; INVASIBILITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTISTA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 7044241353     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00660.x     Document Type: Article

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