Robustness of the spatial insurance effects of biodiversity to habitat loss

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 445-460

  Thompson, Patrick L ^a   Rayfield, Bronwyn ^a   Gonzalez, Andrew ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centrality; Connectivity; Dispersal; Ecosystem function; Environmental change; Extinction; Habitat fragmentation; Metacommunity; Network; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948462796     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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