Competition-colonization trade-offs and disturbance effects at multiple scales

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 823-829

  Cadotte, Marc William ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Metacommunity; Microcosm; Regional vs. local; Spatial scale; Species diversity; Succession

Indexed keywords

WATER;

COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; MICROCOSM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PROTOZOON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PORIFERA; PROTOZOA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER;

EID: 34247380363     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1117     Document Type: Article

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