The Role of Local and Upstream Colonisation in Determining Stream Periphyton Metacommunity Assemblages

ABSTRACT Stream periphyton is an ideal study system for explaining how dispersal shapes community patterns. Few studies have tried to investigate periphyton metacommunities at the reach scale, and studies comparing local versus upstream periphyton propagule sources are lacking. We aimed to address t...

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Published in:	Ecology and Evolution
Main Authors:	Daniel Zamorano, Travis Ingram, Christoph D. Matthaei
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2025-01-01
Subjects:	dispersal processes drift community field experiment functional guilds mass effect New Zealand
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70850