Empirical approaches to metacommunities: A review and comparison with theory

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 482-491

  Logue, Jürg B ^a   Mouquet, Nicolas ^b   Peter, Hannes ^a   Hillebrand, Helmut ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; METAPOPULATION; PARADIGM SHIFT; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DATA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 80051471111     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.04.009     Document Type: Review

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