Connectivity, scale-dependence, and the productivity-diversity relationship

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 676-683

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a   Ryberg, Wade A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Connectivity; Diversity; Monotonic; Productivity; Scale dependence; Species richness; Unimodal

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; POND; PRODUCTIVITY; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3843073027     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00622.x     Document Type: Review

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