Resource stress alters hydrological disturbance effects in a stream periphyton community

Oikos

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-108

  Biggs, Barry J F ^a   Tuchman, Nancy C ^b,c   Lowe, Rex L ^b,d   Stevenson, R Jan ^b,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PERIPHYTON; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; REGENERATION; SCOUR; STREAM;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032947892     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546795     Document Type: Article

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