Plant community diversity and composition affect individual plant performance

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 665-677

  Schmidtke, Andrea ^a,c   Rottstock, Tanja ^a   Gaedke, Ursula ^a   Fischer, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity experiment; Functional richness; Individual performance; Species richness; The Jena Experiment

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; GRASSLAND; HEIGHT; HERB; LEGUME; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; GERMANY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; GERMANY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GERMANY;

POACEAE;

EID: 77958019816     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1688-z     Document Type: Article

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