Local and latitudinal variation in abundance: the mechanisms shaping the distribution of an ecosystem engineer
Ecological processes that determine the abundance of species within ecological communities vary across space and time. These scale-dependent processes are especially important when they affect key members of a community, such as ecosystem engineers that create shelter and food resources for other sp...
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PeerJ Inc.
2013-07-01
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/100.pdf |