Disturbance-diversity models: What do they really predict and how are they tested?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1736, 2012, Pages 2163-2170

  Robin Svensson, J ^a   Lindegarth, Mats ^a   Jonsson, Per R ^a   Pavia, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity indices; Evenness; Richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; META-ANALYSIS; NATIONAL PARK; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84859985754     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2620     Document Type: Article

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