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The effect of temporal environmental heterogeneity on community structure: a replicated experimental study

The effect of temporal environmental heterogeneity on community structure: a replicated... Periodicity, predictability and stochasticity of environmental perturbations are shown to influence the community structure that develops in microcosms. Sets of replicate, microalgal communities were subjected to different temporal patterns of rarefaction and resource resupply and their species-abundance patterns after 120 days of such manipulations were determined. Perturbations having, 1, 7, and 28 day periodicities differentially effected community structure. The predictability of these perturbations had a less profound influence on the communities which developed than the average perturbation periodicity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oecologia Springer Journals

The effect of temporal environmental heterogeneity on community structure: a replicated experimental study

Oecologia , Volume 57 (1) – Mar 1, 1983

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 by Springer-Verlag
Subject
Life Sciences; Ecology; Plant Sciences
ISSN
0029-8549
eISSN
1432-1939
DOI
10.1007/BF00379566
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Abstract

Periodicity, predictability and stochasticity of environmental perturbations are shown to influence the community structure that develops in microcosms. Sets of replicate, microalgal communities were subjected to different temporal patterns of rarefaction and resource resupply and their species-abundance patterns after 120 days of such manipulations were determined. Perturbations having, 1, 7, and 28 day periodicities differentially effected community structure. The predictability of these perturbations had a less profound influence on the communities which developed than the average perturbation periodicity.

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OecologiaSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 1, 1983

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