Ecological convergence in a rocky intertidal shore metacommunity despite high spatial variability in recruitment regimes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 43, 2010, Pages 18528-18532

  Caro, Andrés U ^a   Navarrete, Sergio A ^a   Carlos Castilla, Juan ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Community structure; Ecological drift; Interaction strength; Macroecology; Neutral theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOREBIRD; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHILE; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THORACICA;

EID: 78649844812     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007077107     Document Type: Article

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