Interactive effects of disturbance and dispersal directionality on species richness and composition in metacommunities

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 859-870

  Altermatt, Florian ^a,b   Schreiber, Sebastian ^a   Holyoak, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymmetric dispersal; Density; Directionally biased dispersal; Ecological gradients; Metacommunities; Microcosms; Species traits

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; GRAVITY; GROWTH RATE; HILLSLOPE; MICROCOSM; PARAMETERIZATION; PROTIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PROTISTA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 79955645269     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1095.1     Document Type: Article

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