The relationship between productivity and species richness

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1999, Pages 257-300

  Waide, R B ^a   Willig, M R ^b   Steiner, C F ^c   Mittelbach, G ^c   Gough, L ^d   Dodson, S I ^e   Juday, G P ^f   Parmenter, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem processes; Functional groups; Primary productivity

Indexed keywords

PRODUCTIVITY; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0033381365     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.30.1.257     Document Type: Article

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