A community of metacommunities: Exploring patterns in species distributions across large geographical areas

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 627-639

  Henriques Silva, Renato ^a   Lindo, Zoë ^b   Peres Neto, Pedro R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Clementsian gradients; Community composition; Distribution pattern; Lake fish; Metacommunity structure; Nestedness; Spatial variation; Turnover

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; GROWING SEASON; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; METAPOPULATION; NESTEDNESS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; LAKE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; LAKES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONTARIO;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84876125673     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0683.1     Document Type: Article

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