Disturbance and diversity in experimental microcosms

Nature

Volumn 408, Issue 6815, 2000, Pages 961-964

  Buckling, Angus ^a   Kassen, Rees ^b   Bell, Graham ^b   Rainey, Paul B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MICROCOSM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; MICROSOME; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0034700482     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35050080     Document Type: Article

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