Does productivity drive diversity or vice versa? A test of the multivariate productivity-diversity hypothesis in streams

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1227-1241

  Cardinale, Bradley J ^a   Bennett, Danuta M ^a   Nelson, Craig E ^a   Gross, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem production and function; Freshwater algae; Species richness

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE;

ALGA; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PERIPHYTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALGA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; DIATOM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; DIATOMS; FERTILIZERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITRATES; PHOSPHATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE;

EID: 65649083495     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1038.1     Document Type: Article

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