What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity?

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2381-2396

  Mittelbach, Gary G ^a   Steiner, Christopher F ^a   Scheiner, Samuel M ^b   Gross, Katherine L ^a   Reynolds, Heather L ^a,c   Waide, Robert B ^d   Willig, Michael R ^b,e   Dodson, Stanley I ^f   Gough, Laura ^g  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Productivity; Productivity diversity relationships; Scale; Species diversity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALIA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0034800740     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[2381:WITORB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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