Plant community composition more predictive than diversity of carbon cycling in freshwater wetlands

Wetlands

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 965-977

  Schultz, Rachel ^a,c   Andrews, Sarah ^b   O'Reilly, Lindsay ^b   Bouchard, Virginie ^a   Frey, Serita ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity. Ecosystem functioning; Methane; Multivariate statistics; Plant productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; MOISTURE CONTENT; PH; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863720436     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-011-0211-6     Document Type: Article

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