Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi-terrestrial habitat: Comparison of organisms with different dispersal abilities sampled in the same plots

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1683-1693

  Hájek, Michal ^a,b   Roleček, Jan ^a,b   Cottenie, Karl ^c   Kintrová, Kateřina ^a   Horsák, Michal ^a   Poulíčková, Aloisie ^d   Hájková, Petra ^a,b   Fránková, Markéta ^a,b   Dítě, Daniel ^e  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Diatoms; Dispersal; Environmental filtering; Fen; Metacommunity; Molluscs; Spatial scale; Species sorting; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIVALVE; BRYOPHYTE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIATOM; DISPERSAL; FEN; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROPAGULE; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VASCULAR PLANT; WATER CHEMISTRY;

CARPATHIANS;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MOLLUSCA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79960356231     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02503.x     Document Type: Article

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