Regional and local patterns in plant species richness with respect to resource availability

Oikos

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 417-428

  Cornwell, William K ^a,b   Grubb, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT COMMUNITY; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EUROPE;

EID: 0037609404     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.11697.x     Document Type: Article

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