Local disturbance cycles and the maintenance of heterogeneity across scales in marine metapopulations

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 647-657

  Gouhier, Tarik C ^a   Guichard, Frédéric ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demographic coupling; Demographically open system; Dispersal limitation; Disturbance cycles; Metapopulation; Mussels; Rocky intertidal communities; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METAPOPULATION; MOLLUSC; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION MODELING; SYNCHRONY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIVALVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILITY; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILITY; LARVA; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247133199     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0672     Document Type: Article

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