The role of complementarity and competition in ecosystem responses to variation in plant diversity

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 704-719

  Hooper, David U ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Complementary plant resource use; Ecosystem processes; Functional group richness; Net primary productivity; Plant composition; Relative Yield Total; Serpentine grassland; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; GRASSLAND; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0031823441     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0704:TROCAC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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