Population variability is lower in diverse rock pools when the obscuring effects of local processes are removed

Ecoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 455-462

  Romanuk, Tamara N ^a,b   Kolasa, Jurek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity; Environmental noise; Resolution; Rock pools; Stability

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ROCK POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 12344267137     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2004.11682855     Document Type: Article

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