La diversidad y la productividad alcanzan su punto máximo a una tasa de dispersión intermedia en metacomunidades en

P A Venail1, R C MacLean, T Bouvier

  • 1Université Montpellier 2, CNRS, UMR 5554 Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, CC065 Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier cedex 05, France. pvenail@univ-montp2.fr

Nature
|March 14, 2008
PubMed
Resumen

Las tasas de dispersión intermedias aumentan la diversidad bacteriana y la productividad del ecosistema al mejorar la diferenciación de nicho. Esto pone de relieve la importancia de considerar tanto las escalas de tiempo ecológicas como las evolutivas para comprender las relaciones entre la diversidad y la función.

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