Effects of land-use change on productivity depend on small-scale plant species diversity

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 687-696

  Gross, Nicolas ^a   Bloor, Juliette M G ^a   Louault, Frédérique ^a   Maire, Vincent ^a   Soussana, Jean François ^a  

^a French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass production; Biodiversity effect; Fertilisation; Grasslands; Intensification; Land use; Mowing; Spatial stability; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949123865     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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