Biodiversity: population versus ecosystem stability

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 350-363

  Tilman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climatic variability; Compensation; Competition; Diversity stability hypothesis; Drought; Grasslands; Prairie; Primary productivity; Savanna; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY-STABILITY HYPOTHESIS; ECOSYSTEM STABILITY; GRASSLAND; POPULATION STABILITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 0030418734     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265614     Document Type: Article

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