What do the biodiversity experiments tell us about consequences of plant species loss in the real world?

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 529-534

  Lepš, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ecosystem functioning; Ellenberg indicator values; Productivity; Red list; Species richness; Species traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144232416     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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