Spatial clustering of habitat structure effects patterns of community composition and diversity

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1125-1133

  Altermatt, Florian ^a,b   Holyoak, Marcel ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Density; Dispersal; Metacommunity; Microcosm; Protozoa; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONNECTIVITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INVERTEBRATE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; MICROCOSM; PROTOZOAN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EUGLENA GRACILIS; PARAMECIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EUGLENA GRACILIS; PARAMECIUM; ROTIFERA;

PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 84861410210     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1190.1     Document Type: Article

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