Compounded perturbations yield ecological surprises

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 535-545

  Paine, Robert T ^a   Tegner, Mia J ^b   Johnson, Edward A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altered community states; Dispersal; Multiple disturbances; Recovery intervals; Scaling disturbances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000653263     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900049     Document Type: Article

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