Primary community assembly on land - The missing stages: Why are the heterotrophic organisms always there first?

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 569-577

  Hodkinson, Ian D ^a   Webb, Nigel R ^b   Coulson, Stephen J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allochthonous detritus; Colonization; Facilitation; Invertebrates; Succession

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; COLONIZATION; DETRITUS; FACILITATION; INVERTEBRATE; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 0036274502     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2002.00696.x     Document Type: Review

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