Climate-induced temporal variation in the productivity-diversity relationship

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 897-902

  Laughlin, Daniel C ^a   Moore, Margaret M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 66749151904     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17514.x     Document Type: Article

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