Does Liebig's law of the minimum scale up from species to communities?

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1741-1751

  Danger, Michael ^a,b   Daufresne, Tanguy ^c   Lucas, Françoise ^d   Pissard, Serge ^e   Lacroix, Gérard ^a  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^e HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPETITIVE DISPLACEMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; MICROCOSM; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 55049096549     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.16793.x     Document Type: Article

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