Metacommunity versus biogeography: a case study of two groups of neotropical vegetation-dwelling arthropods.

Biogeography and metacommunity ecology provide two different perspectives on species diversity. Both are spatial in nature but their spatial scales do not necessarily match. With recent boom of metacommunity studies, we see an increasing need for clear discrimination of spatial scales relevant for b...

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Main Authors: Thiago Gonçalves-Souza, Gustavo Q Romero, Karl Cottenie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4280172?pdf=render