Long-term and large-scale perspectives on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-98

  Symstad, Amy J ^a,b   Chapin III, F Stuart ^c   Wall, Diana H ^d   Gross, Katherine L ^e   Huenneke, Laura F ^f   Mittelbach, Gary G ^e   Peters, Debra P C ^f   Tilman, David ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community ecosystem interactions; Ecosystem functioning; Spatial scale; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037235256     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0089:LTALSP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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