Biodiversity effects increase linearly with biotope space

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 574-583

  Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G ^a,b   Schmid, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Grasslands; Plant diversity; Productivity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOTOPE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; PLANT COMMUNITY;

EID: 3042822406     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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