Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: A synthesis of underlying mechanisms

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 106-115

  Loreau, Michel ^a   de Mazancourt, Claire ^a  

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

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Ecosystem; Fast slow dynamics; Overyielding; Stability; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYNCHRONY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84877926895     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12073     Document Type: Article

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