Populations in small, ephemeral habitat patches may drive dynamics in a Daphnia magna metapopulation

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2975-2982

  Altermatt, Florian ^a,b,c   Ebert, Dieter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Daphnia magna; Dispersal stage; Ephippium; Levins metapopulation; Mainland island; Metapopulation dynamics; Migration

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CRUSTACEAN; DISPERSAL; HABITAT TYPE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; METAPOPULATION; PATCH SIZE; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; ROCK POOL; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

CLITELLARIA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 77957731346     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2016.1     Document Type: Article

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