Community diversity and invasion resistance: An experimental test in a grassland ecosystem and a review of comparable studies

Ecological Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 819-831

  Hector, Andy ^a   Dobson, Kim ^a   Minns, Asher ^a,b   Bazeley White, Ellen ^a   Lawton, John Hartley ^a  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BIODEPTH project; Biodiversity; Community structure; Functional groups; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000114464     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2001.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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