Predicting Plant Diversity Response to Disturbance: Applicability of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis and Mass Ratio Hypothesis

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 383-395

  Kershaw, H Maureen ^a   Mallik, Azim U ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ecosystem function; ecosystem management; lowland sites; species diversity; sustainability; trait diversity; upland sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879937279     PISSN: 07352689     EISSN: 15497836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07352689.2013.791501     Document Type: Article

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