Reversal in the relationship between species richness and turnover in a phytoplankton community

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2435-2447

  Matthews, Blake ^a   Pomati, Francesco ^a  

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

Author keywords

Community assembly; Species turnover; Species area relationships; Species time relationships

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TURNOVER;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; LAKE; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWITZERLAND; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; LAKES; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

SWITZERLAND; ZURICHSEE;

EID: 84869174501     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2289.1     Document Type: Article

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