The intermediate disturbance hypothesis should be abandoned

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 86-92

  Fox, Jeremy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competition; Diversity; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Nonadditivity; Nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84872687937     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.08.014     Document Type: Review

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