Don't diss integration: A comment on Ricklefs's disintegrating communities

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 919-927

  Brooker, Rob W ^a   Callaway, Ragan M ^b   Cavieres, Lohengrin A ^c   Kikvidze, Zaal ^d,e   Lortie, Christopher J ^f   Michalet, Richard ^g,h   Pugnaire, Francisco I ⁱ   Valiente Banuet, Alfonso ^j,k   Whitham, Thomas G ^h  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^f YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^h NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^j INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^k UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Biotic interactions; Community ecology; Scale

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOTIC FACTOR; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72449125312     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648058     Document Type: Article

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