Cyclic assembly trajectories and scale-dependent productivity-diversity relationships

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107-113

  Steiner, Christopher F ^a,b   Leibold, Mathew A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Beta diversity; Heteroclinic cycles; Invasibility; Metacommunity; Permanence; Productivity diversity relationships, scale dependent; Scale; Species diversity; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 1342332792     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-3010     Document Type: Article

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