Biodiversity and ecosystem services: A multi-scale empirical study of the relationship between species richness and net primary production

Ecological Economics

Volumn 61, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 478-491

  Costanza, Robert ^a   Fisher, Brendan ^a   Mulder, Kenneth ^a   Liu, Shuang ^a   Christopher, Treg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Net primary production; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 33847312801     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.03.021     Document Type: Article

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