Detecting the role of individual species for overyielding in experimental grassland communities composed of potentially dominant species

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 535-549

  Roscher, Christiane ^a,b   Schumacher, Jens ^a,b   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^c   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complementarity effect; Constant final yield; Density; Dominance effect; Relative yield

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPLEMENTARITY; DETECTION METHOD; DOMINANCE; GRASS; GRASSLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; YIELD RESPONSE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARRHENATHERUM ELATIUS;

EID: 36448952730     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0846-4     Document Type: Article

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