The effects of temporal resolution on species turnover and on testing metacommunity models

American Naturalist

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 587-606

  Tomašových, Adam ^a,b   Kidwell, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Community turnover; Metacommunity; Species abundance distribution; Temporal scale; Time averaging

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAPTURE METHOD; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; METAPOPULATION; MODEL TEST; MOLLUSC; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSTRACOD; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; RESOLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIME SERIES; TRADE-OFF; TURNOVER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRUSTACEA; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION; FOSSIL; MOLLUSC; TIME;

ANIMALS; CRUSTACEA; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLLUSCA; TIME FACTORS;

MOLLUSCA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 77951087237     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651661     Document Type: Article

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