Do Species Sorting and Mass Effects Drive Assembly in Tropical Agroecological Landscape Mosaics?

Biotropica

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-17

  Livingston, George ^a   Philpott, Stacy M ^b   De La Mora Rodriguez, Aldo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alates; Biodiversity; Dispersal; Matrix; Metacommunity; Mexico; Shade coffee; Twig nesting ants

Indexed keywords

AGROECOLOGY; ANT; BIODIVERSITY; COFFEE; DISPERSAL; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; META-ANALYSIS; MICROHABITAT; RARE SPECIES; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84871928387     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00894.x     Document Type: Article

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