Interactions between disturbance and dispersal reduce persistence thresholds in a benthic community

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 413, Issue , 2010, Pages 217-228

  Lundquist, Carolyn J ^a   Thrush, Simon F ^a   Coco, Giovanni ^a   Hewitt, Judi E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Colonization; Connectivity; Dispersal; Disturbance; Landscape; Patch dynamic; Persistence; Resilience; Spatially explicit model; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOGENIC STRUCTURE; COLONIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HOMOGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; PATCH DYNAMICS; PERSISTENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

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EID: 77957374869     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08578     Document Type: Article

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