Overyielding in grassland communities: Testing the sampling effect hypothesis with replicated biodiversity experiments

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 502-511

  Hector, Andy ^a   Bazeley White, Ellen ^a   Loreau, Michel ^b   Otway, Stuart ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^c  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BIODEPTH project; Competitive dominance; Complementarity effect; Niche differentiation; Positive interactions; Resource partitioning; Selection effect; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GRASSLAND; MONOCULTURE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0036318965     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00337.x     Document Type: Article

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