The importance of scale in testing the origins of alternative community states

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 429-442

  Petraitis, Peter S ^a   Latham, Roger Earl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Alternative community states; Ascophyllum; Community ecology; Disturbance; Ericaceae; Fire ecology; Marine intertidal systems; Mussels; Scale dependent processes; Spatial autocorrelation; Species assemblages, alternative

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SCALE EFFECT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ASCOPHYLLUM;

EID: 0032982398     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0429:TIOSIT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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