Seasonal changes in the relationship between plant species richness and community biomass in early succession

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 385-394

  Bischoff, Armin ^a   Auge, Harald ^b   Mahn, Ernst Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Competition exclusion; Diversity; Hump shaped relationship; Old field; Self thinning; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

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EID: 22144498875     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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