Biodiversity mediates productivity through different mechanisms at adjacent trophic levels

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2821-2829

  Long, Zachary T ^a,b,d   Bruno, John F ^c   Duffy, J Emmett ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity effect; Ecosystem functioning; Food web; Selection effect; Tripartite partition

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FORECASTING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; FORECASTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38449118972     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1977.1     Document Type: Article

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