Assembly-history dynamics of a pitcher-plant protozoan community in experimental microcosms.

History drives community assembly through differences both in density (density effects) and in the sequence in which species arrive (sequence effects). Density effects arise from predictable population dynamics, which are free of history, but sequence effects are due to a density-free mechanism, ari...

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Main Authors: Kohmei Kadowaki, Brian D Inouye, Thomas E Miller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3413654?pdf=render