Does ecological filtering across a productivity gradient explain variation in species pool-richness relationships?

Oikos

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 148-154

  R Houseman, Gregory ^a   L Gross, Katherine ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL;

EID: 33749484489     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14743.x     Document Type: Article

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