Effects of disturbance frequency, intensity, and area on assemblages of stream macroinvertebrates

Oecologia

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 270-279

  McCabe, Declan J ^a   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Dynamic equilibrium model; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Rarefaction; Stream invertebrate community

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL DISTURBANCE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MODEL; SPECIES DENSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM;

UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 0033891357     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420000369     Document Type: Article

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