Testing whether productivity mediates the occurrence of alternate stable states and assembly cycles in a model microcosm system

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1153-1164

  Fox, Jeremy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTINCTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROCOSM; PROTIST;

PROTISTA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 49249132092     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16815.x     Document Type: Article

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