From canalization to contingency: Historical effects in a successional rocky intertidal community

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 435-460

  Berlow, Eric L ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Context dependency; Disturbance, community response to; Oregon; Patch dynamics; Predation; Predictability of patterns; Rocky intertidal; Succession, historical effects during; Temporal variation; Whelks

Indexed keywords

INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; PATCH DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; SUCCESSION;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS;

EID: 0031393351     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1997)067[0435:FCTCHE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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