Resource quantity, not resource heterogeneity, maintains plant diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 420-426

  Stevens, M Henry H ^a,b   Carson, Walter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemblage level thinning; Enemy free space; Heterogeneity; Productivity gradient; Resource ratio; Species diversity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0036098703     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00333.x     Document Type: Article

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