Resonance inflates carrying capacity in protist populations with periodic resource pulses

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 150-157

  Orland, Mary C ^a   Lawler, Sharon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental variability; Microcosms; Periodic disturbance; Population dynamics; Protists; Pulsing; Resonance; Scale

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MICROCOSM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTIST;

CILIOPHORA; COLPIDIUM; COLPIDIUM STRIATUM; PROTISTA;

EID: 1342311342     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0372     Document Type: Article

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