Vertebrate metacommunity structure along an extensive elevational gradient in the tropics: A comparison of bats, rodents and birds

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 968-976

  Presley, Steven J ^a   Cisneros, Laura M ^a   Patterson, Bruce D ^b   Willig, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Clementsian structure; Elevation; Manu; Neotropics; Nestedness; Passeriformes; Peruvian Andes; Rodentia; Species sorting

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAT; BIRD; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT TYPE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VERTEBRATE;

ANDES; PERU;

AVES; CHIROPTERA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866142620     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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