Testing the intermediate disturbance hypothesis on species diversity in herbaceous plant communities along a human trampling gradient using a 4-year experiment in an old-field

Ecological Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-197

  Ikeda, Hiroaki ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Competition; Shannon Weiner index; Species evenness; Species richness; Trampling gradient

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; OLD FIELD; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRAMPLING;

EID: 0037349559     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2003.00546.x     Document Type: Article

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