The proportion of core species in a community varies with spatial scale and environmental heterogeneity
Ecological communities are composed of a combination of core species that maintain local viable populations and transient species that occur infrequently due to dispersal from surrounding regions. Preliminary work indicates that while core and transient species are both commonly observed in communit...
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-11-01
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