Effects of total resources, resource ratios, and species richness on algal productivity and evenness at both metacommunity and local scales

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Gamfeldt, Lars ^a,b   Hillebrand, Helmut ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ALGA; ALGAL COMMUNITY; ANKISTRODESMUS; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; FRAGILARIA; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER SPECIES; GYMNODINIUM; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; PREDICTION; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIOMASS; BIOTA; DRUG EFFECT; EUKARYOTE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE;

BIOMASS; BIOTA; EUKARYOTA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959927389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021972     Document Type: Article

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