Elements of metacommunity structure of river and riparian assemblages: Communities, taxonomic groups and deconstructed trait groups

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 25, Issue , 2016, Pages 35-43

  Tonkin, Jonathan D ^a   Stoll, Stefan ^a   Jähnig, Sonja C ^b   Haase, Peter ^a,c  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context dependency; Floodplain; LTER; Metacommunity types; Stream macroinvertebrates; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954270758     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2015.12.002     Document Type: Article

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