Population synchrony and stability in environmentally forced metacommunities

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1195-1206

  Steiner, Christopher F ^a   Stockwell, Richard D ^a   Kalaimani, Vidhya ^a   Aqel, Zakaria ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION;

EID: 84880506360     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20936.x     Document Type: Article

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