Biodiversity, density compensation, and the dynamics of populations and functional groups

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 361-373

  McGrady Steed, Jill ^a   Morin, Peter J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Density compensation; Diversity; Functional groups; Microbes; Persistence; Protists; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PROTISTA;

EID: 0033923134     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0361:BDCATD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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