Common and rare species respond to similar niche processes in macroinvertebrate metacommunities

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-192

  Siqueira, Tadeu ^a,b   Bini, Luis Mauricio ^c   Roque, Fabio Oliveira ^d   Marques Couceiro, Sheyla Regina ^e   Trivinho Strixino, Susana ^b   Cottenie, Karl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA GRANDE DOURADOS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSIDADE NILTON LINS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LIMITING FACTOR; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NICHE; RARE SPECIES; RARITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREAM;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84856220838     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06875.x     Document Type: Article

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