Why does grassland productivity increase with species richness? Disentangling species richness and composition with tests for overyielding and superyielding in biodiversity experiments

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1525, 2003, Pages 1713-1719

  Drake, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Overyielding; Primary production; Sampling effect; Species richness; Superyielding

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRASSLAND; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODEPTH ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASSLAND; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PLANT YIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PRODUCT RECOVERY; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0042879429     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2423     Document Type: Article

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