General relationships between consumer dispersal, resource dispersal and metacommunity diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 175-184

  Haegeman, Bart ^a   Loreau, Michel ^a  

^a Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Dispersal; Diversity dispersal relationship; Ecosystem ecology; Habitat generalist; Habitat specialist; Limited resource access; Meta ecosystem; Metacommunity; Resource competition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; DIVERSITY-DISPERSAL RELATIONSHIP; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT GENERALIST; HABITAT SPECIALIST; LETTER; LIMITED RESOURCE ACCESS; META-ECOSYSTEM; METACOMMUNITY; RESOURCE COMPETITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNECOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; DIVERSITY-DISPERSAL RELATIONSHIP; ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY; HABITAT GENERALIST; HABITAT SPECIALIST; LIMITED RESOURCE ACCESS; META-ECOSYSTEM; METACOMMUNITY; RESOURCE COMPETITION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84891481889     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12214     Document Type: Article

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