How important are species richness, species evenness and interspecific differences to productivity? A mathematical model

Oikos

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-66

  Nijs, Ivan ^a,b   Roy, Jacques ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0034050698     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880107.x     Document Type: Article

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