Factors controlling community structure in heterogeneous metacommunities
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Factors controlling community structure in heterogeneous metacommunities.
1. Modern theories of species coexistence recognize the importance of environmental heterogeneity. 2. Despite the existence of many observational studies, few experimental studies have evaluated the extent to which, and mechanisms by which, fixed spatial heterogeneity increases community diversity and alters community structure. 3. In experimental protist communities, we found that non-spatial ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Animal Ecology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0021-8790,1365-2656
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01559.x