Drought impacts and recovery are driven by local variation in species turnover

Plant Ecology

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 325-336

  Yurkonis, Kathryn A ^a,b   Meiners, Scott J ^a  

^a EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization rates; Community dynamics; Disturbance; Extinction rates; Fluctuating resources; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT STRESS; EXTINCTION RISK; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECOVERY PLAN; RUDERAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY; SUCCESSION; TURNOVER; WOODY PLANT;

EID: 33745683674     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-9076-1     Document Type: Article

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