Ecological indicators performance during a re-colonisation field experiment and...

• Author(s): Patrício, Joana ; Salas, Fuensanta ; Pardal, Miguel Ângelo ; Jørgensen, Sven Erik ; Marques, João Carlos
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/5354
• Origin: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Ecological indicators; Rocky shore community; Re-colonisation; Succession; Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH)
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Through a re-colonisation field experiment three main questions were approached: (1) How do different ecological indicators react during the process of recovery? (2) What does grow first during a community succession, biomass or complexity? (3) Can the chosen ecological indicators help in recognising the three proposed forms of growth: biomass, network and information, throughout re-colonisation? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W87-4H7T0S2-1/1/7f791ab537a262948dd71907dec58cc1