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

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1482-1487

  Loreau, Michel ^a,b   Sapijanskas, Jurgis ^a,c   Isbell, Forest ^a,d   Hector, Andy ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; NOTE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84862297349     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0792.1     Document Type: Note

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