Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation

Nature

Volumn 415, Issue 6870, 2002, Pages 426-429

  Cardinale, Bradley J ^a   Palmer, Margaret A ^a   Collins, Scott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; FLUXES; HYDRODYNAMICS;

HYPOTHESIS;

BIODIVERSITY;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FACILITATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYPOTHESIS; LAND BIOME; LARVA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; INSECTS; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

INSECTA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0037165170     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/415426a     Document Type: Article

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