Scale and scope matter when explaining varying patterns of community diversity in riverine metacommunities

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 134-144

  Seymour, Mathew ^a,b   Deiner, Kristy ^a   Altermatt, Florian ^a,c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Freshwater; Functional; Macroinvertebrates; Metacommunity phylogenetics; Phylogenetic; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960370664     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2015.10.007     Document Type: Article

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