The role of dispersal and disturbance in determining spatial heterogeneity in sedentary organisms

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2011-2026

  Reed, Daniel C ^a   Raimondi, Peter T ^b   Carr, Mark H ^b   Goldwasser, Lloyd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel Islands National Park; Colonization; Dispersal; Disturbance; El Nino; Kelp forest; Larvae; Propagule; Sedentary organisms; Spatial heterogeneity; Spore; Variability

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUCUS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOVEMENT PATTERN; PROPAGULE; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; UNITED STATES;

DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033910839     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2011:TRODAD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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