Hydrological stability drives both local and regional diversity patterns in rock pool metacommunities

Oikos

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 741-749

  Brendonck, Luc ^a   Jocqué, Merlijn ^b,c   Tuytens, Karen ^a   Timms, Brian V ^d   Vanschoenwinkel, Bram ^e  

^a Global Change and Sustainable Development   (Belgium)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^e VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; METAPOPULATION; NESTEDNESS; REGIONAL PATTERN; ROCK POOL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

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EID: 84930410552     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01710     Document Type: Article

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