Spatial scale dictates the productivity-biodiversity relationship

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6879, 2002, Pages 427-430

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a   Leibold, Mathew A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DATA ACQUISITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; WATERSHEDS;

SPATIAL SCALES;

BIODIVERSITY;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIODIVERSITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; PLANTS;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0037187570     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416427a     Document Type: Letter

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