Maintenance of positive diversity-stability relations along a gradient of environmental stress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Romanuk, Tamara N ^a   Vogt, Richard J ^b   Young, Angela ^a   Tuck, Constance ^a   Carscallen, Mather W ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, CLOSED; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 77956411880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010378     Document Type: Article

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