Disturbance influences oyster community richness and evenness, but not diversity

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2378-2388

  Kimbro, David L ^a,b   Grosholz, Edwin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Competition; Foundation species; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Mobile species; Olympia oysters; Positive interactions; Species richness and evenness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIVALVE; DISTURBANCE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NATIVE SPECIES; SESSILE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; OYSTER; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; OSTREIDAE; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

OSTREA CONCHAPHILA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 33748563597     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2378:DIOCRA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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