Quantifying the importance of regional and local filters for community trait structure in tropical and temperate zones

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 903-914

  Algar, Adam C ^a,b   Kerr, Jeremy T ^a   Currie, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Community assembly; Competition; Environmental filtering; Hylidae; Local community; Regional processes; Trait dispersion; Trait distributions; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; FROG; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL REGION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FROGS AND TOADS; PHYSIOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ANURA; HYLIDAE;

EID: 79955671538     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0606.1     Document Type: Article

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