Scale Expansion of Community Investigations and Integration of the Effects of Abiotic and Biotic Processes on Maintenance of Species Diversity
Information on the maintenance of diversity patterns from regional to local scales is dispersed among academic fields due to the local focus of community ecology. To better understand these patterns, the study of ecological communities needs to be expanded to larger scales and the various processes...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2011-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Ecology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/596508 |