Environmental filtering determines metacommunity structure in wetland microcrustaceans

Oecologia

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 193-205

  Gascón, Stéphanie ^a   Arranz, Ignasi ^a,b   Cañedo Argüelles, Miguel ^b,c   Nebra, Alfonso ^d   Ruhí, Albert ^a,e   Rieradevall, Maria ^c   Caiola, Nuno ^d   Sala, Jordi ^a   Ibàñez, Carles ^d   Quintana, Xavier D ^a   Boix, Dani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d IRTA Aquatic Ecosystems Sant Carles de la Ràpita   (Spain)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladocera; Copepoda; Moran eigenvector maps; Ostracoda; Salinity

Indexed keywords

BRACKISH WATER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; METAPOPULATION; OSTRACOD; SALINITY; WETLAND;

CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; GLEASONIA; OSTRACODA;

ANIMAL; BIOTA; CLASSIFICATION; CRUSTACEA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPAIN; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; CRUSTACEA; SPAIN; WETLANDS;

EID: 84954565656     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3540-y     Document Type: Article

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