Removing the confounding effect of habitat specialization reveals the stabilizing contribution of diversity to species variability

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Kolasa, Jurek ^a   Li, Bai Lian ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Diversity; Specialization; Stability; Variability

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242658896     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0059     Document Type: Article

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