Revealing how species loss affects ecosystem function: The trait-based price equation partition

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 269-279

  Fox, Jeremy W ^a   Harpole, W Stanley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Context dependence effect; Ecosystem function; Price equation partition; Species' traits; Species composition effect; Species richness effect

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EQUATION; FOOD WEB; GRASSLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PROTISTA;

EID: 40449140905     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0288.1     Document Type: Article

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