Plant attribute diversity, resilience, and ecosystem function: The nature and significance of dominant and minor species

Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-113

  Walker, Brian ^a,c   Kinzig, Ann ^b   Langridge, Jenny ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Ecosystem; Function; Redundancy; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032968789     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900062     Document Type: Article

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