Scaling population responses to spatial environmental variability in advection-dominated systems

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 933-943

  Anderson, Kurt E ^a   Nisbet, Roger M ^a   Diehl, Sebastian ^b   Cooper, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advection; Dispersal; Environmental variability; Leuctra nigra; Population dynamics; Response to disturbance; Spatial scaling; Streams and rivers

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DISPERSAL; POPULATION MODELING;

LEUCTRA NIGRA;

EID: 24344467820     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00797.x     Document Type: Article

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