Assessing the Use of Functional Diversity as a Measure of Ecological Resilience in Arid Rangelands

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1168-1177

  Chillo, Verónica ^a,b   Anand, Madhur ^b,c   Ojeda, Ricardo A ^a  

^a LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

desertification; functional groups; Insurance Hypothesis; Monte Desert; rangeland management; resilience; response diversity

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; DESERTIFICATION; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRAZING; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RANGELAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOLERANCE; VULNERABILITY;

ARGENTINA; MENDOZA; MONTE DESERT;

EID: 80855130762     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9475-1     Document Type: Article

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