Fuzziness and heterogeneity of benthic metacommunities in a complex transitional system.

We propose an extension to the metacommunity (MC) concept and a novel operational methodology that has the potential to refine the analysis of MC structure at different hierarchical levels. We show that assemblages of species can also be seen as assemblages of abstract subregional habitat-related me...

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Main Authors: Vinko Bandelj, Cosimo Solidoro, Daniele Curiel, Gianpiero Cossarini, Donata Melaku Canu, Andrea Rismondo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3528783?pdf=render