Quantifying periodic, stochastic, and catastrophic environmental variation

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-40

  Sabo, John L ^a   Post, David M ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Catastrophic variation; Disturbance; Environmental variability; Frequency domain; Periodic variation; Spectra; Stochastic variation; Stress; Time series

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCHARGE; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOURIER TRANSFORM; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; PERIODICITY; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 40349096451     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1340.1     Document Type: Article

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