Flow-related disturbance creates a gradient of metacommunity types within stream networks

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 667-680

  Campbell, Rebecca E ^a   Winterbourn, Michael J ^a   Cochrane, Thomas A ^a   McIntosh, Angus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Disturbance; Local environment; Macroinvertebrates; Metacommunity; Neutral; Regional; Spatial scale; Stream networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925534289     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0164-x     Document Type: Article

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