Fine‐scale changes in connectivity affect the metapopulation dynamics of a bryophyte confined to ephemeral patches - Zartman, Charles E.; Nascimento, Henrique E. M.; Cangani, Katia G.; Alvarenga, Lisi D. P.; Snäll, Tord (The Journal of ecology, 2012)
Keywords: Amazon; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Aquatic plants; Biological and medical sciences; bryophyte; Bryophytes; Colonization; Connectivity; Conspecifics; Cryptogams; Demecology; demographic models; Demography; dispersal; Ecological genetics; Ecology; Ekologi; epiphyll; Extinction; field experimentation; Field study; Flowers & plants; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Human ecology; intraspecific competition; Leaves; Local population; Mass extinctions; Metapopulation ecology; Metapopulations; Natural populations; Plant growth; Plant population and community dynamics; Plant populations; Plants and fungi; Population dynamics; Population growth; Radula flaccida; Radulaceae; rain forest; rescue effect; Species extinction; Stochastic models; Synecology; South America; America; Amazon Basin; Brazil; Amazonas Brazil; South America, Amazonia; plant population and community dynamics; Metapopulation; Demography; bryophyte; rescue effect; Extinction; Plant community; demographic models; Rain forest; Bryophyta; dispersal; Vegetation dynamics; Dispersion; Epiphyll; Models; Amazon; Colonization