Functional redundancy in a clipping experiment on grassland plant communities

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1420-1426

  Joner, Fernando ^a   Specht, Gabriel ^a   Müller, Sandra Cristina ^a   Pillar, Valério D ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CLIPPING; COMPENSATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; HERB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PERSISTENCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 80051597057     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19375.x     Document Type: Article

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