Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7093, 2006, Pages 629-632

  Tilman, David ^a   Reich, Peter B ^a   Knops, Johannes M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; PLANTS (BOTANY); STABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

HUMAN-DRIVEN ECOSYSTEM; PERENNIAL PRAIRIE SPECIES; STABILITY HYPOTHESIS; TEMPORAL STABILITY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FIELD METHOD; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRAIRIE; PRODUCTIVITY; STABILIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGROECOSYSTEM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COVARIANCE; DIVERSITY STABILITY HYPOTHESIS; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GRASSLAND; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 33745259863     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04742     Document Type: Article

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