Local Community size mediates ecological drift and competition in metacommunities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1691, 2010, Pages 2185-2191

  Orrock, John L ^a   Watling, James I ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community size; Competition; Metacommunity; Neutral; Niche; Stochasticky

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; METAPOPULATION; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCHINESS; PROPAGULE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 77955375566     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2344     Document Type: Article

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