Interpreting the 'selection effect' of biodiversity on ecosystem function

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 846-856

  Fox, Jeremy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Additive partition; Biodiversity; Complementarity effect; Ecosystem function; Natural selection; Price equation; Selection effect; Tripartite partition

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEMENTARITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; NATURAL SELECTION;

EID: 22544473048     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00795.x     Document Type: Article

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