Explaining productivity-diversity relationships in plants

Oikos

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 449-457

  Rajaniemi, Tara K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); PLANT COMMUNITY; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0037648515     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12128.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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