Declining biodiversity can alter the performance of ecosystems

Nature

Volumn 368, Issue 6473, 1994, Pages 734-737

  Naeem, Shahid ^a   Thompson, Lindsey J ^a   Lawler, Sharon P ^a   Lawton, John H ^a   Woodfin, Richard M ^a  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING;

DECOMPOSITION; ECOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PLANTS (BOTANY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; MULTITROPHIC LEVEL COMMUNITY; REPEATED MEASURES ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0028410967     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/368734a0     Document Type: Article

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