The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: An experimental approach in a grassland community

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-121

  Roscher, Christiane ^a   Schumacher, Jens ^a   Baade, Jussi ^a   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^b   Gleixner, Gerd ^c   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^d   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Ecosystem functioning; Experimental design; Functional groups; Sampling effect; Species pool

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842660071     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-1791-00216     Document Type: Article

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