Species richness facilitates ecosystem resilience in aquatic food webs

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2123-2137

  Downing, Amy L ^a   Leibold, Mathew A ^b  

^a OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Resilience; Resistance; Stability

Indexed keywords

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EID: 77956257484     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02472.x     Document Type: Article

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