On correlations and causations between productivity and species richness in vegetation: Predictions from habitat attributes

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 105-114

  Aarssen, Lonnie W ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition intensity; Facilitation; Habitat type; Hump backed model; Species composition; Species pool

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035036393     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-1791-00041     Document Type: Article

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