Ecosystem multifunctionality in metacommunities

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2867-2879

  Thompson, Patrick L ^a   Gonzalez, Andrew ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Ecosystem function; Environmental change; Functional biodiversity; Spatial insurance; Stability; Traits

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; METAPOPULATION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84984710528     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1502     Document Type: Article

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