Metacommunity dynamics: Decline of functional relationship along a habitat fragmentation gradient

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Bergerot, Benjamin ^a   Julliard, Romain ^a   Baguette, Michel ^b,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UMR 7179 MAOAC   (France)

^c Moulis   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COTESIA GLOMERATA; FRANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HERBIVORE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; METACOMMUNITY DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; PIERIS BRASSICAE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA GLOMERATA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE;

EID: 77955336200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011294     Document Type: Article

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