Plant species richness and community productivity: Why the mechanism that promotes coexistence matters

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 56-65

  Mouquet, Nicolas ^a   Moore, Joslin L ^b   Loreau, Michel ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coexistence mechanism; Competition colonization trade off; Model; Plant community; Productivity; Recruitment limitation; Regional species pool; Resource heterogeneity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRODUCTIVITY; RECRUITMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0036169484     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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