The response of plant diversity to ecosystem retrogression: Evidence from contrasting long-term chronosequences

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-103

  Wardle, David A ^a,b   Bardgett, Richard D ^c   Walker, Lawrence R ^d   Peltzer, Duane A ^b   Lagerström, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DISTURBANCE; DIVERSITY INDEX; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOMASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TREE; VEGETATION COVER;

ALASKA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 36749001140     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.16130.x     Document Type: Article

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