Lakeshore diversity and rarity relationships along interacting disturbance gradients: Catchment area, wave action and depth

Biological Conservation

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 79-90

  Morris, Paul A ^a   Hill, Nicholas M ^b   Reekie, Edward G ^a   Hewlin, Heather L ^a  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance gradients; Lake catchment area; Protected areas; Rare Atlantic Coastal Plain plants; Shoreline plant communities; Species pools; Turnover rate

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DISTURBANCE; LAKE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RARE SPECIES; SHORE (NONMARINE); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CANADA;

RIPARIA;

EID: 0036246793     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00231-2     Document Type: Article

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