Theory of marine communities: The intermediate disturbance hypothesis

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1412-1424

  Dial, Roman ^a,b   Roughgarden, Jonathan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barnacles; Community ecology; Competition; Disturbance; Diversity; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Recruitment; Rocky intertidal zone; Settlement

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SETTLEMENT;

THORACICA;

EID: 0031822509     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1412:TOMCTI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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