Hierarchical spatial structure of stream fish colonization and extinction

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 127-137

  Hitt, Nathaniel P ^a   Roberts, James H ^b  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; FECUNDITY; FISH; HEADWATER; HOMOGENEITY; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RARE SPECIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPAWNING; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; SURVEY;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

PISCES;

EID: 84355163090     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19482.x     Document Type: Article

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