Complex spider webs as habitat patches : environmental filtering drives species composition
Metacommunity theory has advanced understanding of mechanisms shaping community structure. Four main models (neutral, patch-dynamics, species-sorting, and mass-effects) have been recognized to explain these mechanisms, differing in their assumptions about the effects of environmental filtering and s...
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University of British Columbia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58947 |