Determinants of local and regional communities in intermittent and perennial headwaters of the Bolivian Amazon

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1335-1349

  Datry, Thibault ^a,b,c   Moya, Nabor ^c,d   Zubieta, Jose ^c   Oberdorff, Thierry ^b,c  

^a UR MALY   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

^d UNIBOL Quechua Casimiro Huanca   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

dispersal; distance decay relationships; drying; metacommunity; nestedness; turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954136621     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12706     Document Type: Article

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