Ecological determinism increases with organism size

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1752-1759

  Farjalla, Vinicius F ^a   Srivastava, Diane S ^b   Marino, Nicholas A C ^a   Azevedo, Fernanda D ^a   Dib, Viviane ^a   Lopes, Paloma M ^a   Rosado, Alexandre S ^a   Bozelli, Reinaldo L ^a   Esteves, Francisco A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Brazil; Bromeliad; Competitive exclusion; Food web; Habitat filtering; Macroinvertebrates; Niche theory; Restinga de jurubatiba national park; Species co occurrence; Stochasticity; Variance partitioning; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BODY SIZE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FOOD WEB; HABITAT TYPE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NICHE; STOCHASTICITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BROMELIACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BROMELIACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; ZOOPLANKTON;

BRAZIL; JURUBATIBA SANDBANK NATIONAL PARK; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL];

EID: 84864219703     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1144.1     Document Type: Article

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