Disturbance and aquatic biodiversity: Reconciling contrasting views

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 809-818

  Lepori, Fabio ^a   Hjerdt, Niclas ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Disturbance; Habitat template; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Patch dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749618279     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[809:DAABRC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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