Factors influencing succession: Lessons from large, infrequent natural disturbances

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 511-523

  Turner, Monica G ^a   Baker, William L ^b   Peterson, Christopher J ^c   Peet, Robert K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal distance; Disturbance frequency; Disturbance intensity; Disturbance size; Landscape ecology; Patch size; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000195501     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900047     Document Type: Article

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