A spatial patch dynamic modeling approach to pattern and process in an annual grassland

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 447-464

  Wu, Jianguo ^a,b,c   Levin, Simon A ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive exclusion; Disturbance; Jasper Bidge serpentine grassland; Metapopulation; Patch dynamics; PATCHMOD; Population dynamics; Scale; Spatial modeling

Indexed keywords

BROMUS; BROMUS HORDEACEUS HORDEACEUS; LASTHENIA CALIFORNICA; BROMUS MOLLIS;

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION; DISTURBANCE; GOPHER MOUND; GRASSLAND; PATCH DYNAMICS; SERPENTINE;

EID: 0028581276     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2937145     Document Type: Article

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