Mobile link organisms and ecosystem functioning: Implications for ecosystem resilience and management

Ecosystems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-98

  Lundberg, Jakob ^a   Moberg, Fredrik ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecological memory; Ecosystem functioning; Ecosystem services; Functional groups; Global environmental change; Invasive species; Management; Mobile links; Resilience

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE;

EID: 0037218594     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-002-0150-4     Document Type: Article

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