Vive la différence: Plant functional diversity matters to ecosystem processes

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 646-655

  Díaz, Sandra ^a   Cabido, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FERTILIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0035501320     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02283-2     Document Type: Review

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