Diversity loss, recruitment limitation, and ecosystem functioning: Lessons learned from a removal experiment

Oikos

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 424-435

  Symstad, Amy J ^a,b   Tilman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0035069964     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.920304.x     Document Type: Article

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