Diversity and community biomass depend on dispersal and disturbance in microalgal communities

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 653, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-78

  Matthiessen, Birte ^a   Ptacnik, Robert ^b   Hillebrand, Helmut ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity ecosystem functioning; Dispersal; Disturbance; Evenness; Richness; Successional stage

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC MICROALGAE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DISPERSAL RATES; DISTURBANCE; DISTURBANCE LEVEL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NON-LINEAR; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REGIONAL POOLS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES INTERACTIONS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSIONAL STAGES;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROALGA; PHYTOBENTHOS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION;

EID: 77954689390     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0349-x     Document Type: Article

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