Self-disturbance as a source of spatiotemporal heterogeneity: The case of the tallgrass prairie

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-164

  Bascompte, Jordi ^a   Rodríguez, Miguel A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DISTURBANCE; HETEROGENEITY; LITTER; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; GRASS; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0034697407     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2002     Document Type: Article

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