Dispersal ability determines the role of environmental, spatial and temporal drivers of metacommunity structure.

Recently, community ecologists are focusing on the relative importance of local environmental factors and proxies to dispersal limitation to explain spatial variation in community structure. Albeit less explored, temporal processes may also be important in explaining species composition variation in...

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Main Authors: André A Padial, Fernanda Ceschin, Steven A J Declerck, Luc De Meester, Cláudia C Bonecker, Fabio A Lansac-Tôha, Liliana Rodrigues, Luzia C Rodrigues, Sueli Train, Luiz F M Velho, Luis M Bini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4207762?pdf=render