Reconsidering diversity-productivity relationships: Directness of productivity estimates matters

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 695-699

  Groner, Elli ^a   Novoplansky, Ariel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apportionments; Complex interactions; Diversity; Diversity productivity patterns; Productivity; Trophic levels

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; META-ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0041627385     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00488.x     Document Type: Article

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