Effects of trophic similarity on community composition

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1495-1506

  Morlon, Hélène ^a,b   Kefi, Sonia ^c   Martinez, Neo D ^d,e  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CENTRE DE MATHÉMATIQUES APPLIQUÉES   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d The University of Arizona   (United States)

^e Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Community assembly; Dispersion; Food webs; Interaction networks; Metacommunity; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ASSEMBLY RULE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD WEB; MODEL TEST; PHYLOGENETICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ADIRONDACK LAKE; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD CHAIN; LAKE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; LAKES; NEW YORK;

EID: 84936771269     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12356     Document Type: Article

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