Landscape contrast: A solution to hidden assumptions in the metacommunity concept?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 621-631

  Biswas, Shekhar R ^a   Wagner, Helene H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Dispersal; Ecological theory; Environmental filtering; Landscape heterogeneity; Landscape model; Matrix; Metacommunity models; Species interaction

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84859839766     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9732-5     Document Type: Review

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