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SUBMITTER: Damschen EI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2614718 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Damschen Ellen I EI Brudvig Lars A LA Haddad Nick M NM Levey Douglas J DJ Orrock John L JL Tewksbury Joshua J JJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20081205 49
A conceptual model of movement ecology has recently been advanced to explain all movement by considering the interaction of four elements: internal state, motion capacity, navigation capacities, and external factors. We modified this framework to generate predictions for species richness dynamics of fragmented plant communities and tested them in experimental landscapes across a 7-year time series. We found that two external factors, dispersal vectors and habitat features, affected species colon ...[more]