The role of dispersal mode and habitat specialization for metacommunity structure of shallow beach invertebrates.

Metacommunity ecology recognizes the interplay between local and regional patterns in contributing to spatial variation in community structure. In aquatic systems, the relative importance of such patterns depends mainly on the potential connectivity of the specific system. Thus, connectivity is expe...

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Main Authors: Iván F Rodil, Paloma Lucena-Moya, Henri Jokinen, Victoria Ollus, Håkan Wennhage, Anna Villnäs, Alf Norkko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5308789?pdf=render