Figure 11. Model of soft-bottom community responses to disturbance / pollution gradients. Stage 1 represents early successional communities following disturbance or communities in polluted habitats. Stage 3 communities represent successional endpoints or communities in non-polluted habitats. Stage 2 are intermediate in both scenarios. See text for more details. The figure is reproduced from Rhoads and Germano (1982) and is based on models presented in Rhoads et al. (1978) and Pearson and Rosenberg (1978).

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