Biology, chance, or history? The predictable reassembly of temperate grassland communities

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 408-421

  Petermann, Jana S ^a,d   Fergus, Alexander J F ^a   Roscher, Christiane ^b   Turnbull, Lindsay A ^a   Weigelt, Alexandra ^c   Schmid, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity productivity relationship; Community stability; Dispersal limitation; Ecosystem functioning; Invasion resistance; Invasiveness; Negative feedback; Neutral theory; Nonrandom invasion; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRASSLAND; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POACEAE; TIME;

CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT DISEASES; POACEAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949291185     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2304.1     Document Type: Article

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