Metapopulation persistence and species spread in river networks

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 426-434

  Mari, Lorenzo ^a,b   Casagrandi, Renato ^a   Bertuzzo, Enrico ^b   Rinaldo, Andrea ^b,c   Gatto, Marino ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bifurcations; Dominant eigenvalue; Ecohydrology; Extinction debt; Fluvial systems; Metapopulation capacity; Movement ecology; Topology

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; INVASIVE SPECIES; METAPOPULATION; PERSISTENCE; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYNERGISM;

SHENANDOAH RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BIFURCATIONS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOMINANT EIGENVALUE; DREISSENA; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION DEBT; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METAPOPULATION CAPACITY; MOVEMENT ECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; TOPOLOGY; URODELA;

BIFURCATIONS; DOMINANT EIGENVALUE; ECOHYDROLOGY; EXTINCTION DEBT; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; METAPOPULATION CAPACITY; MOVEMENT ECOLOGY; TOPOLOGY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DREISSENA; ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; URODELA;

EID: 84895517758     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12242     Document Type: Article

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