Priority effects and species sorting in a long paleoecological record of repeated community assembly through time

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2267-2275

  Mergeay, Joachim ^a,b   De Meester, Luc ^b   Eggermont, Hilde ^c,d   Verschuren, Dirk ^d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Daphnia spp.; Lake Naivasha Kenya; Mass effect; Metacommunity; Niche; Paleoecology; Priority effect; Propagule pressure; Restoration ecology; Storage effect

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HISTORICAL RECORD; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE; PALEOECOLOGY; PROPAGULE; RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TROPICAL REGION; TURNOVER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; KENYA; LAKE; TIME; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; KENYA; LAKES; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

KENYA; LAKE NAIVASHA; RIFT VALLEY;

CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA;

EID: 84555178383     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1645.1     Document Type: Article

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