The first to arrive and the last to leave: colonisation and extinction dynamics of common and rare fishes in intermittent prairie streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1321-1334

  Whitney, James E ^a,c   Gido, Keith B ^a   Martin, Erika C ^a   Hase, Kristen J ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

drought; metapopulation dynamics; nestedness; species abundance distributions (SADs); turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940905726     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12668     Document Type: Article

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