Niche and fitness differences relate the maintenance of diversity to ecosystem function

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1157-1165

  Carroll, Ian T ^a   Cardinale, Bradley J ^a,b   Nisbet, Roger M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coexistence; Ecosystem function; MacArthur's consumer resource model; Niche and fitness differences; Stabilizing and equalizing mechanisms

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; CORRELATION; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABILIZATION;

EID: 79955917665     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0302.1     Document Type: Article

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