Metacommunity Dynamics Over 16 Years in a Pyrogenic Shrubland

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 357-366

  Miller, Timothy J ^a   Quintana Ascencio, Pedro F ^b   Maliakal Witt, Satya ^c   Menges, Eric S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Florida rosemary scrub; Nestedness; Patch connectivity; Patch quality; Patch incidence model; Shrubland

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION RISK; GENERALIST; HERB; LIFE HISTORY; NATURE CONSERVATION; NESTEDNESS; PATCH SIZE; SCRUB; SHRUBLAND; SPECIALIZATION; WOODY PLANT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; PLANT;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; PLANTS;

ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS;

EID: 84858864011     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01807.x     Document Type: Article

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