Testing the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in species-poor systems: A simulation experiment for mangrove forests

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 417-424

  Piou, Cyril ^a,b   Berger, Uta ^a,b   Hildenbrandt, Hanno ^a,c   Feller, Ilka C ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual based modeling; Interspecific competition; KiWi model; Perturbation regime; Species dominance; Succession

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MANGROVE; PERTURBATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; TESTING METHOD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA GERMINANS; LAGUNCULARIA RACEMOSA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 53549083225     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3170/2008-8-18384     Document Type: Article

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