Resource-niche complementarity and autotrophic compensation determines ecosystem-level responses to increased cladoceran species richness

Oecologia

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 264-272

  Norberg, Jon ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Ecosystem functioning; Redundancy; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHYDORUS SPHAERICUS; CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA LONGISPINA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIA PULEX;

EID: 0033951873     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008855     Document Type: Article

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