Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: Evidence from wood decomposer communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 675-684

  Fukami, Tadashi ^a,b,c   Dickie, Ian A ^b   Paula Wilkie, J ^c   Paulus, Barbara C ^c   Park, Duckchul ^c   Roberts, Andrea ^c   Buchanan, Peter K ^c   Allen, Robert B ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Biodiversity; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Community assembly; Ecosystem functioning; New Zealand Nothofagus (beech) forests; Priority effect; Saprotophic fungi; Wood decomposition

Indexed keywords

FAGUS; FUNGI; NOTHOFAGUS;

CARBON;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; TREE; WOOD;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW ZEALAND; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 77954007713     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01465.x     Document Type: Article

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