Effects of connectivity and recurrent local disturbances on community structure and population density in experimental metacommunities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Altermatt, Florian ^a,b   Bieger, Annette ^b   Carrara, Francesco ^c   Rinaldo, Andrea ^c   Holyoak, Marcel ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT PATCHINESS; IMMIGRATION; METACOMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION RECOVERY; POPULATION SIZE; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; ROTIFERA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES REFUGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUKARYOTE; EUPLOTES; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM AURELIA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

PROTOZOA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM AURELIA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955749635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019525     Document Type: Article

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