Relating species diversity to ecosystem functioning: Mechanistic backgrounds and experimental approach with a decomposer food web

Oikos

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 180-194

  Mikola, Juha ^a   Setälä, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; SOIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NEMATODA;

EID: 0031785422     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546560     Document Type: Article

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