Linking metacommunity paradigms to spatial coexistence Mechanisms

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2436-2446

  Shoemaker, Lauren G ^a   Melbourne, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Equalizing mechanisms; Mass effects; Metacommunity paradigms; Neutral model; Niche; Patch dynamics; Spatial variation; Species sorting; Stabilizing mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; FITNESS; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; NICHE; PARADIGM SHIFT; PATCH DYNAMICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABILIZATION; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRADE-OFF;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84985940561     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1454     Document Type: Article

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