Mechanisms creating community structure across a freshwater habitat gradient

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 27, Issue , 1996, Pages 337-363

  Wellborn, Gary A ^a   Skelly, David K ^b   Werner, Earl E ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

community ecology; disturbance; evolution; permanence; predation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL GRADIENT; FRESHWATER HABITAT; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY;

EID: 0030302584     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.27.1.337     Document Type: Article

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