Interactive effects of environmental filtering predict beta-diversity patterns in a subtropical forest metacommunity

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 96-106

  dos Santos, Anita Stival ^a   Saraiva, Daniel Dutra ^a   Müller, Sandra Cristina ^a   Overbeck, Gerhard Ernst ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Atlantic forest; Climatic variation; Species sorting; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; METAPOPULATION; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EID: 84926073278     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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