Metacommunity size influences aquatic community composition in a natural mesocosm landscape

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 903-911

  Lecraw, Robin M ^a   Srivastava, Diane S ^a   Romero, Gustavo Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DETRITIVORY; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MESOCOSM; MOSQUITO; PATCHINESS; TAXONOMY;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84904288293     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01253     Document Type: Article

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