The effect of positive interactions on community structure in a multi-species metacommunity model along an environmental gradient

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 885-894

  Filotas, Elise ^a   Grant, Martin ^b   Parrott, Lael ^a   Rikvold, Per Arne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Diversity; Environmental gradient; Metacommunity; Multi species model; Mutualism; Positive interactions

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DIVERSE COMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTIONS; JOINT INFLUENCE; MULTI SPECIES MODEL; MULTI-SPECIES; MUTUALISTIC INTERACTION; POSITIVE INTERACTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT;

COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

COMPLEXATION;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MUTUALISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 75749091820     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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