Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-120

  Wright, Justin P ^a,b   Naeem, Shahid ^b   Hector, Andy ^c   Lehman, Clarence ^d   Reich, Peter B ^d   Schmid, Bernhard ^c   Tilman, David ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Classification; Complementarity; Ecosystem function; Functional groups; Sampling effect

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; NITROGEN; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644955039     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00850.x     Document Type: Article

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