Productivity-biodiversity relationships depend on the history of community assembly

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6947, 2003, Pages 423-426

  Fukami, Tadashi ^a   Morin, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY;

COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY;

BIODIVERSITY;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PRODUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROTOZOON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 0041764898     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01785     Document Type: Article

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