Three competing models for predicting the size of species pools: A test using eastern North American wetlands

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 253-258

  Wisheu, Irene C ^a,b   Keddy, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DISTURBANCE TOLERANCE; SPECIES POOL SIZE; STRESS TOLERANCE; WETLAND;

EID: 0030304570     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546197     Document Type: Article

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