Metacommunity, mainland-island system or island communities? Assessing the regional dynamics of plant communities in a fragmented landscape

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 842-853

  May, Felix ^a,b,c   Giladi, Itamar ^d   Ristow, Michael ^a   Ziv, Yaron ^d   Jeltsch, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISLAND; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; META-ANALYSIS; PATCH USE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84879314323     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07793.x     Document Type: Article

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