Combined disturbances and the role of their spatial and temporal properties in shaping community structure

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 217-229

  Seifan, Merav ^a   Seifan, Tal ^a   Jeltsch, Florian ^b   Tielbörger, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competition colonization; Environmental heterogeneity; Individual based model; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Plant community

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; DORMANCY; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84860838988     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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