Disturbance effects on species diversity and functional diversity in riparian and upland plant communities

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-35

  Biswas, Shekhar R ^a,b   Mallik, Azim U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional diversity; Headwater stream; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Nested ANOVA; Plant functional trait; Riparian buffer; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; BUFFER ZONE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HEADWATER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SPECIES EVENNESS; TOLERANCE; UPLAND REGION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT; RIVER;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANTS; RIVERS;

EID: 77649223111     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0887.1     Document Type: Article

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