Biodiversity, stability, and productivity in competitive communities

American Naturalist

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 534-552

  Lehman, C L ^a   Tilman, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance effect; Diversity productivity; Diversity stability hypothesis; Overyielding; Portfolio effect; Temporal stability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 0033789938     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303402     Document Type: Article

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