Community assembly in the presence of disturbance: A microcosm experiment

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1931-1940

  Jiang, Lin ^a   Patel, Shivani N ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Community assembly; Disturbance; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Protists; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIVORY; CILIATE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

PROTISTA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54549115948     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1263.1     Document Type: Article

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