Patch size matters more than dispersal distance in a mainland-island metacommunity

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 747-757

  Åström, Jens ^a   Bengtsson, Jan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collembola; Community assembly; Fragmentation; Moss patch model system; Oribatida

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MITE; MOSS; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MITE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MITES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; COLLEMBOLA; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 80054028657     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2024-y     Document Type: Article

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