Disturbance, succession and stability: a ten year study of temporal variation of species composition after a catastrophic flood in the river Paraná, Argentina

Community Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 205-214

  Franceschi, E A ^a   Torres, P S ^a   Prado, D E ^a   Lewis, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Diversity; Extraordinary events; Permanent plots; Regeneration succession; Riparian vegetation; Trajectories; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 30544447649     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.1.2000.2.10     Document Type: Article

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