Regrowth or dispersal? Recovery of a freshwater red alga following disturbance at the patch scale

Austral Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 526-536

  Downes, Barbara J ^a   Street, Jodie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Floods; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Recruitment; Upland stream

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; PATCH DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; RED ALGA; REGROWTH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; STEAVENSON RIVER; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

ALGAE; AUDOUINELLA HERMANNII; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 28244458114     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01467.x     Document Type: Article

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