Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 313-323

  Massol, François ^a,b   Gravel, Dominique ^c,d   Mouquet, Nicolas ^c   Cadotte, Marc W ^e   Fukami, Tadashi ^f   Leibold, Mathew A ^b  

^a UR EMAX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex adaptive system; Dispersal; Food web; Grain; Landscape; Metacommunity; Metaecosystem; Patch; Trait

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FOOD WEB; FUTURE PROSPECT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIMITING FACTOR; META-ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; PATCHINESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD CHAIN; REVIEW;

BIOTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79951763499     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01588.x     Document Type: Review

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