Disentangling the drivers of metacommunity structure across spatial scales

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1560-1571

  Meynard, Christine N ^a   Lavergne, Sébastien ^b   Boulangeat, Isabelle ^b   Garraud, Luc ^c   Van Es, Jérémie ^c   Mouquet, Nicolas ^d   Thuiller, Wilfried ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c Domaine de Charance   (France)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Alps; Community assembly; France; Incidence matrix; Metacommunity structure; Plant communities; Site by species; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GRASSLAND; METAPOPULATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ALPS; FRANCE;

EID: 84880511578     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12116     Document Type: Article

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