Metacommunities

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 2313-2318

  Holyoak, M ^a   Mata, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Life history tradeoff; Mass effect; Meta ecosystem; Metacommunity; Neutral model; Source sink dynamics; Spatial dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955447914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00833-8     Document Type: Chapter

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