Effects of Connectivity and Recurrent Local Disturbances on Community Structure and Population Density in Experimental Metacommunities

• Florian Altermatt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Florian Altermatt, Annette Bieger

  * E-mail: florian.altermatt@eawag.ch

  Affiliations Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Annette Bieger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Florian Altermatt, Annette Bieger

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Francesco Carrara,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ENAC School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bâtiment GR, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Andrea Rinaldo,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ENAC School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bâtiment GR, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Marcel Holyoak

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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