Scale-dependent responses of species richness to experimental manipulation of productivity and disturbance in Californian coastal grasslands

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 906-918

  Sandel, Brody ^a   Corbin, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

diversity; diversity; Experiments; Occurrence probabilities; Spatial scale; Species aggregation; Species area relationships

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRAIN SIZE; GRASSLAND; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865780044     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01406.x     Document Type: Article

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