Deterministic assembly of land snail communities according to species size and diet

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 803-810

  Schamp, Brandon ^a   Horsák, Michal ^b   Hájek, Michal ^b  

^a ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Body size; Coexistence community assembly; Diet; Environmental filtering; Limiting similarity; pH; Trait convergence; Trait dispersion; Trait divergence

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BODY SIZE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIET; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEN; FREEZE TOLERANCE; HERB; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PH; SIMILARITY INDEX; SNAIL;

CARPATHIANS; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; MOSS; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BRYOPHYTA; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNAILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER; WETLANDS;

EID: 77957657836     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01685.x     Document Type: Article

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