Plant trait responses to the environment and effects on ecosystem properties

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 301-311

  Lienin, Patrick ^a   Kleyer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Ecosystem function; Functional diversity; Landuse; Leaf economics spectrum; Litter decomposition; Mass ratio hypothesis; Path analysis; Productivity; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864915083     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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