Dendritic connectivity controls biodiversity patterns in experimental metacommunities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5761-5766

  Carrara, Francesco ^a   Altermatt, Florian ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^c   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Directional dispersal; Microbial microcosms; Nonneutral dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; LANDSCAPE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84859626363     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119651109     Document Type: Article

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