Spatial and species compositional networks for inferring connectivity patterns in ecological communities

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 718-727

  Layeghifard, Mehdi ^a   Makarenkov, Vladimir ^a   Peres Neto, Pedro R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Graph theory; Metacommunity; Multi species; Networks; Spatial variation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; METAPOPULATION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 84929027093     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12293     Document Type: Article

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