Scale-dependence of processes structuring dung beetle metacommunities using functional diversity and community deconstruction approaches.

Community structure is driven by mechanisms linked to environmental, spatial and temporal processes, which have been successfully addressed using metacommunity framework. The relative importance of processes shaping community structure can be identified using several different approaches. Two approa...

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Main Authors: Pedro Giovâni da Silva, Malva Isabel Medina Hernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4378897?pdf=render