A quantitative analysis of species sorting across organisms and ecosystems

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3284-3292

  Soininen, Janne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body size; Dispersal; Ecosystems; Environmental variation; Meta analysis; Metacommunities; Scale; Species sorting; Sspatial variation; Trophic position

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; META-ANALYSIS; OMNIVORY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920054585     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 19399170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2228.1     Document Type: Review

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