Functional redundancy in heterogeneous environments: Implications for conservation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 177-179

  Wellnitz, T ^a   LeRoy Poff, N ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Context dependency; Ecological experiments; Environmental heterogeneity; Functional redundancy; Species relationships

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HETEROGENEITY; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EID: 0034982860     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00221.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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