Broad-scale environmental response and niche conservatism in lacustrine diatom communities

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 724-732

  Bennett, Joseph R ^a   Cumming, Brian F ^b   Ginn, Brian K ^b,c   Smol, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analogue technique; Diatoms; Dispersal limitation; Environmental response; Europe; Niche conservatism; North America; Ph; Redundancy analysis (RDA); Variation decomposition

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; NICHE; PH; SPECIALIST; SUCCESSION;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 78650936859     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00548.x     Document Type: Article

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