Consumer species richness and autotrophic biomass

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2603-2615

  Naeem, Shahid ^a   Li, Shibin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autotrophic biomass; Biodiversity; Community, ecosystem functioning; Microcosm; Protists; Species richness; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; BIOMASS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0032435087     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2603:CSRAAB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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