The importance of long-term studies of ecosystem reassembly after the eruption of the Kasatochi Island volcano

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 335-341

  Del Moral, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BENTHOS; BIRD; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INVERTEBRATE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MORTALITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECOLONIZATION; RESIDUAL SOIL; SEAWATER; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; TERRAIN; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ISLAND;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; ANDREANOF ISLANDS; KASATOCHI ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ARTHROPODA; AVES; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955875341     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-42.3.335     Document Type: Article

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