Spatial Structures of the Environment and of Dispersal Impact Species Distribution in Competitive Metacommunities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Ai, Dexiecuo ^a   Gravel, Dominique ^b   Chu, Chengjin ^a   Wang, Gang ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; IMMIGRATION; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880404922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068927     Document Type: Article

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