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Metapopulation dynamics and Meta Community Structure

Published January 16, 2023

Principal Investigator(s):
Products:

    Publication:

    1) Heatherly, T. N., M. R. Whiles, D. J. Gibson, S. L. Collins, A. D. Huryn, J. K. Jackson, and M. A. Palmer. Stream insect occupancy-frequency patterns and metapopulation structure. Oecologia 151:313-321. (2007).

    Other products: Presentations:

    2) Heatherly, T. N., M. R. Whiles, D. J Gibson, S. L Collins, A. D. Huryn, J. K. Jackson, and M. Palmer. 2005. Stream insect distributional patterns and metapopulation models: effects of spatial scale and sampling intensities. Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, New Orleans.

    3) Whiles, M. R., D. J. Gibson, S. L. Collins, T. N. Heatherly, A. D. Huryn, J. K. Jackson, R. O. Hall, and M. A. Palmer. 2004. Application of the core-satellite metapopulation model to stream insect data sets: patterns in space and time. Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Vancouver, British Columbia.

    Posters:

    4) Heatherly, T. N., S. L. Collins, M. R. Whiles, D. J. Gibson, A. D. Huryn, J. K. Jackson, R. O. Hall, and M. A. Palmer. 2004. Metacommunity structure in regional assemblages of stream macroinvertebrates. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon.

Start Date: February 29, 2004
Meeting Dates:
  • January 30, 2004 - February 1, 2004: ,
Participants:
  • David Gibson
  • AD Huryn
  • DD Judd
  • MR Whiles
Sites Represented:
  • KNZ, ARC

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