A genetic basis to community repeatability and stability

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3398-3406

  Keith, Arthur R ^a   Bailey, Joseph K ^b   Whitham, Thomas G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arthropod community; Broad sense heritability; Common garden experiment; Community genetics; Community stability; Diversity stability; Galling aphid; Interacting foundation species hypotheses; Narrowleaf cottonwood; Pemphigus betae; Populus angustifolia

Indexed keywords

APHID; CLONE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ASPEN; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; POPULUS;

APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; PEMPHIGUS BETAE; POPULUS ANGUSTIFOLIA;

EID: 78249283568     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1236.1     Document Type: Article

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