The effects of disturbance architecture on landscape-level population dynamics

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 375-394

  Moloney, Kirk A ^a   Levin, Simon A ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Disturbance; Disturbance rate; Disturbance size; Landscape; Life history; Population dynamics; Serpentine grassland; Simulation model; Spatial autocorrelation; Temporal autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BROMUS; BROMUS HORDEACEUS HORDEACEUS; CALYCADENIA MULTIGLANDULOSA; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO ERECTA; BROMUS MOLLIS; PLANTAGINACEAE; POACEAE;

DISTURBANCE; JASPER; LIFE HISTORY; MODELLING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SERPENTINE GRASSLAND;

EID: 0030403140     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265616     Document Type: Article

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