Mechanisms contributing to stability in ecosystem function depend on the environmental context

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1400-1410

  Grman, Emily ^a   Lau, Jennifer A ^a   Schoolmaster, Donald R ^a   Gross, Katherine L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensatory dynamics; Diversity; Dominance; Evenness; Fertilization; LTER; Portfolio effect; Stability; Taylor power law

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650318514     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01533.x     Document Type: Article

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