Colonization and succession of stream communities in Glacier Bay, Alaska; What has it contributed to general successional theory?

River Research and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-35

  Milner, Alexander M ^a,c   Robertson, Anne L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Deterministic; Stream; Succession; Theory

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STOCHASTICITY; STREAM; SUCCESSION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALASKA; GLACIER BAY; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 73249142347     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1325     Document Type: Article

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