The dynamics of community assembly under sudden mixing in experimental microcosms

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2898-2906

  Livingston, George ^a   Jiang, Yuexin ^a   Fox, Jeremy W ^b   Leibold, Mathew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biotic interchange; Community assembly; Competitive interactions; Connectivity; Metacommunity; Microcosms; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; EXTINCTION; FOOD WEB; HETEROTROPHY; MICROCOSM; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PLANT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PLANTS;

EID: 84892176923     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1993.1     Document Type: Article

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