Local- to continental-scale variation in the richness and composition of an aquatic food web

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 711-723

  Buckley, Hannah L ^a   Miller, Thomas E ^b   Ellison, Aaron M ^c   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^d  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Food web; Hierarchical Bayesian modelling; Latitudinal gradients; North America; Sarracenia purpurea; Species composition; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIUM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; FOOD WEB; HOST PLANT; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROTOZOAN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 79951559272     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00554.x     Document Type: Article

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