Coexistence of specialist and generalist species is shaped by dispersal and environmental factors

American Naturalist

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 612-624

  Büchi, Lucie ^a   Vuilleumier, Séverine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Interspecific competition; Metacommunity; Migration; Spatial autocorrelation; Specialization

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE BREADTH; SPECIALIST; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FERTILITY; PLANT DISPERSAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOTA; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISPERSAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84898837040     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675756     Document Type: Article

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