Rapid decay of diversity-productivity relationships after invasion of experimental plant communities

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-14

  Pfisterer, Andrea Bettina ^a   Joshi, Jasmin ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^a   Fischer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community ecology; Ecosystem functioning; Extinction; Invasion; Productivity; Species richness; Temporal stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142293897     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-1791-00215     Document Type: Article

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