A general framework for predicting delayed responses of ecological communities to habitat loss
Abstract Although biodiversity crisis at different spatial scales has been well recognised, the phenomena of extinction debt and immigration credit at a crossing-scale context are, at best, unclear. Based on two community patterns, regional species abundance distribution (SAD) and spatial abundance...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-04-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01070-2 |