Intermittent pool beds are permanent cyclic habitats with distinct wet, moist and dry phases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Dell, Anthony I ^a,b   Alford, Ross A ^a   Pearson, Richard G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INTERMITTENT POOL BED; LAND BIOME; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE;

WATER;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; WATER;

EID: 84907429964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108203     Document Type: Article

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