Hierarchical Dynamics of Ecological Communities: Do Scales of Space and Time Match?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Angeler, David G ^a   Göthe, Emma ^a   Johnson, Richard K ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ANNELID; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CERATOPOGONIDAE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIPTERA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EPHEMEROPTERA; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HYDRACARINA; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PH; PLECOPTERA; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TAXONOMY; TRICHOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATES; LAKES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879896742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069174     Document Type: Article

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