Understanding species richness-productivity relationships: The importance of meta-analyses

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2540-2544

  Mittelbach, Gary G ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; META-ANALYSIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; STANDARD;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH;

EID: 77956589138     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1029.1     Document Type: Article

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