Metacommunity dynamics: decline of functional relationship along a habitat fragmentation gradient.

The metacommunity framework is crucial to the study of functional relations along environmental gradients. Changes in resource grain associated with increasing habitat fragmentation should generate uncoupled responses of interacting species with contrasted dispersal abilities.Here we tested whether...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Bergerot, Romain Julliard, Michel Baguette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2894867?pdf=render