Deterministic control on community assembly peaks at intermediate levels of disturbance

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 471-479

  Lepori, Fabio ^a,b   Malmqvist, Björn ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLOOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 61849163771     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.16989.x     Document Type: Article

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