Is plant community richness regulated over time? Contrasting results from experiments and long-term observations

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 602-609

  Elmendorf, Sarah C ^a   Harrison, Susan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California (USA) grassland communities; Diversity manipulation experiments; Diversity regulation; Null models; Plant colonization; Plant extinction; Serpentine soils; Species addition and removal; Species richness; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONIZATION; DATA SET; GRASSLAND; LOCAL EXTINCTION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SERPENTINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955536532     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0535.1     Document Type: Article

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