Disentangling the impacts of diversity on ecosystem functioning in combinatorial experiments

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2925-2935

  Naeem, Shahid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Functional groups; Principal components analysis; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CEDAR CREEK NATIONAL HISTORY AREA; MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038564307     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2925:DTIODO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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