Immigration rates and species niche characteristics affect the relationship between species richness and habitat heterogeneity in modeled meta-communities
The positive relationship between habitat heterogeneity and species richness is a cornerstone of ecology. Recently, it was suggested that this relationship should be unimodal rather than linear due to a tradeoff between environmental heterogeneity and population sizes. Increased environmental hetero...
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PeerJ Inc.
2015-03-01
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/832.pdf |