Are common species sufficient in describing turnover in aquatic metacommunities along environmental and spatial gradients?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2397-2402

  Heino, Jani ^a   Soininen, Janne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; RARE SPECIES; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 78649577051     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.6.2397     Document Type: Article

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