Environmental variability alters the relationship between richness and variability of community abundances in aquatic rock pool microcosms

Ecoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 55-62

  Romanuk, Tamara N ^a   Kolasa, Jurek ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity stability hypothesis; Environmental variability; Invertebrates; Microcosms; Rock pools; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MICROCOSM; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROCK POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

DISCOVERY BAY; JAMAICA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036123780     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2002.11682690     Document Type: Article

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