What determines the relationship between plant diversity and habitat productivity?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 679-684

  Zobel, Martin ^a   Pärtel, Meelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biomass; Competition; Dispersal; Evolution; Facilitation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HABITAT; PLANT; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 54149116524     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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