Tests for nonequilibrium, instability, and stabilizing processes in semiarid plant communities

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 809-822

  Walker, Susan ^a,b   Wilson, J Bastow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Competitive interactions; Equilibrium; Fluctuation; Nonequilibrium; Recovery from perturbation; Selective species removal; Semiarid grassland, New Zealand; Stability; Theoretical model

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; EQUILIBRIUM; GRASSLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 0038082026     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0809:TFNIAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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