Habitat connectivity and dispersal ability drive the assembly mechanisms of macroinvertebrate communities in river networks

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1073-1082

  Sarremejane, Romain ^a   Mykrä, Heikki ^b   Bonada, Núria ^c   Aroviita, Jukka ^b   Muotka, Timo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

beta diversity; flying propensity; metacommunity; null models; streams

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017142938     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12926     Document Type: Article

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