Niche versus neutrality in structuring the beta diversity of damselfly assemblages

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 758-768

  Siepielski, Adam M ^a   McPeek, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Metacommunity; Neutral; Niche; Odonate

Indexed keywords

ODONATA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 84874975713     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12082     Document Type: Article

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