Diversity decreases invasion via both sampling and complementarity effects

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 604-611

  Fargione, Joseph E ^a,b   Tilman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; C4 grass; Complementarity; Invasion; Nitrogen; Sampling effect; Species diversity; Underyielding

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GRASS; NITROGEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

POACEAE;

EID: 20444374098     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00753.x     Document Type: Article

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