Species sorting

Species sorting is a mechanism in the metacommunity framework of ecology whereby species abundances can be tied to the abundance of available resources at a location in the environment—-environmental filtering—-and the ability of a species to take advantage particular habitat.[1]


References

  1. ↑ Székely, A.J., Langenheder, S., 2013. The importance of species sorting differs between habitat generalists and specialists in bacterial communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 87, 102-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12195
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