Scaling the effects of predation and disturbance in a patchy environment

Oecologia

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 321-331

  Lancaster, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Flow refugia; Harsh benign hypothesis; Heterogeneity; Predation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029740987     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00328448     Document Type: Article

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