Functional role of forest diversity: Pros and cons of synthetic stands and across-site comparisons in established forests

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Leuschner, Christoph ^a   Jungkunst, Hermann F ^a   Fleck, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity experiments; Complementarity; Edge effects; Functional biodiversity research; Observational study; Soil development

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649234855     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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