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

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1487-1491

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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