Quantifying secondary succession: A method for all sites?

Community Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-156

  Blatt, S E ^a   Janmaat, J A ^a,b   Harmsen, R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lambda; Old field community; Post fire succession; Secondary succession; Succession ratio; Turnover rate

Indexed keywords

FIRE; METHODOLOGY; OLD FIELD; SECONDARY SUCCESSION;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346397902     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.4.2003.2.3     Document Type: Article

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