Niche complementarity for nitrogen: An explanation for the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relationship?

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1244-1255

  Kahmen, Ansgar ^a,d   Renker, Carsten ^b   Unsicker, Sybille B ^c   Buchmann, Nina ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

15N tracer; Competition; Functional groups; Functional traits; Mineral plant nutrition; Resource partitioning; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

BIODIVERSITY; GRASSLAND; NICHE; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646742720     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1244:NCFNAE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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