The diversity-disturbance relationship: Is it generally strong and peaked?

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 3479-3492

  Mackey, R L ^a   Currie, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity; Diversity disturbance relationship; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Meta analyses; Sampling artifacts; Sampling intensity; Species diversity; Species richness; Temporal and spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0035659141     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[3479:TDDRII]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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