Unanticipated impacts of spatial variance of biodiversity on plant productivity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 791-799

  Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Jensen's inequality; Productivity; Spatial variance

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 22544450520     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00780.x     Document Type: Article

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