| Title | Stochasticity and Assemblage Organization in an Indiana Stream Fish Assemblage |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1985 |
| Authors | Grossman, G. D., Freeman M. C., Moyle P. B., & Whitaker, Jr. J. O. |
| Journal | The American Naturalist |
| Volume | 126 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pagination | 275-285 |
| Date Published | 08/1985 |
| ISSN | 00030147 |
| Abstract | In 1982, Grossman et al. purported to demonstrate that a stream fish assemblage was probably affected more by unpredictable environmental disturbances than by interactive processes such as competition. The main purpose of that paper was to interest ecologists in the possibility that stream fish and invertebrate assemblages may be organized through processes fundamentally different from those addressed by the bulk of ecological theory. Grossman et al. (1982) provoked a series of critical rebuttals (Herbold 1984; Rahel et al. 1984; Yant et al. 1984), and our purpose here is to clarify some of the issues raised by these critiques. |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2461513 |
