Metacommunity structure in a small boreal stream network

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 449-458

  Göthe, Emma ^a   Angeler, David G ^a   Sandin, Leonard ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community ecology; Dendritic networks; Headwater streams; Spatial and temporal scale

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; BOREAL FOREST; CATCHMENT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEADWATER; INVERTEBRATE; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAM;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DENDRITIC NETWORKS; ECOSYSTEM; HEADWATER STREAMS; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SWEDEN;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DENDRITIC NETWORKS; HEADWATER STREAMS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84873994928     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12004     Document Type: Article

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