Effects of plant composition and diversity on nutrient cycling

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 121-149

  Hooper, David U ^a,b   Vitousek, Peter M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Complementary resource use; Diversity; Ecosystem processes; Leaching losses; Microbial immobilization; Nitrogen; Nutrient cycling; Phenology; Phosphorus; Plant composition; Plant functional groups; Serpentine grassland

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRASSLAND; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN JOSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031662909     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0121:EOPCAD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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