Disturbance regimes at the interface of geomorphology and ecology

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1678-1682

  Rice, Stephen ^a   Stoffel, Markus ^b,c   Turowski, Jens M ^d   Wolf, Annett ^e  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biogeomorphology; Disturbance; Diversity; Interaction; Recovery; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CINDERELLA;

EID: 84872391289     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3326     Document Type: Editorial

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