Mechanisms responsible for the positive diversity-productivity relationship in Minnesota grasslands

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 661-668

  Lambers, Janneke Hille Ris ^a   Harpole, W Stanley ^a   Tilman, David ^a   Knops, Johannes ^b   Reich, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Diversity; Facilitation; Frequency dependent disease; Niches; Selection effects

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; NICHE; PRODUCTIVITY;

POACEAE;

EID: 3843103536     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00623.x     Document Type: Article

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