Environment and predation govern fish community assembly in temperate streams

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1194-1205

  Giam, Xingli ^a   Olden, Julian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; co occurrence; competition; ecological interactions; North America; null models; rivers; species traits

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FISH; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STREAM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84976586268     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12475     Document Type: Article

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