Spatiotemporal dynamics in a transition zone: Patchiness, scale, and an emergent property

Community Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 161-169

  Anand, Madhur ^a   Li, B L ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Bouteloua eripoda; Bouteloua gracilis; Ecotone; Grassland; Hurst exponent; Population; Variance; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ECOTONE; GRASSLAND; PATCH SIZE; SCALE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

BOUTELOUA; BOUTELOUA GRACILIS;

EID: 0035669892     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.2.2001.2.3     Document Type: Article

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