Advances in ecological understanding: By Kuhnian revolution or conceptual evolution?

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1553-1559

  Paine, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Ecological history; Intertidal; Kuhnian revolution; Mussel; Mytilus californianus; Paradigm; Recruitment; Rocky shore; Semibalanus cariosus; Settlement

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; PARADIGM SHIFT; RECRUITMENT;

KUHNIA; MYTILUS; MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS; SEMIBALANUS CARIOSUS;

EID: 0037633168     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1553:AIEUBK]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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