A complex metacommunity structure for gastropods along an elevational gradient

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 480-488

  Presley, Steven J ^a   Willig, Michael R ^a   Bloch, Christopher P ^b   Castro Arellano, Ivan ^a,c   Higgins, Christopher L ^d   Klingbeil, Brian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Inst Tecn de   (Mexico)

^d TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clementsian distributions; Coherence; Environmental gradients; Gastropoda; Puerto Rico; Rain forest; Range boundary clumping; Range turnover

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GASTROPOD; HABITAT SELECTION; METAPOPULATION; RAINFOREST; SPECIALIZATION;

LUQUILLO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; PUERTO RICO;

GASTROPODA; GLEASONIA; TERNSTROEMIA LUQUILLENSIS;

EID: 79960145841     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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