Trophic island biogeography drives spatial divergence of community establishment

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2870-2878

  Harvey, Eric ^a   Macdougall, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community establishment; Grassland; Habitat fragmentation; Meta community; Plant insect interactions; Spatial associations; Trophic guilds; Trophic island biogeography

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; GRASSLAND; INSECT; ISLAND; PATCH SIZE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84908308520     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1683.1     Document Type: Article

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