The importance of landscape and habitat properties in explaining instantaneous and long-term distributions of large branchiopods in subtropical temporary pans

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1992-2008

  Nhiwatiwa, Tamuka ^a   Brendonck, Luc ^b   Waterkeyn, Aline ^b   Vanschoenwinkel, Bram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dispersal limitation; Metacommunity structure; Species sorting; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

BRANCHIOPODA;

EID: 80052961228     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02630.x     Document Type: Article

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