Resource stoichiometry and consumers control the biodiversity-productivity relationship in pelagic metacommunities

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-181

  Hillebrand, Helmut ^a,b   Lehmpfuhl, Viola ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomass; Ecosystem functioning; Evenness; Phytoplankton; Resource ratios; Species richness

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ALGA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; INOCULATION; METAPOPULATION; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTE; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALGAE; CILIOPHORA;

EID: 79960239999     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660831     Document Type: Article

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