Experimental evidence that evolutionarily diverse assemblages result in higher productivity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8996-9000

  Cadotte, Marc W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Phylogenetic diversity; Transgressive overyielding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIODIVERSITY; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; TRANSGRESSIVE OVERYIELDING;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMASS; BIOTA; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; ONTARIO; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878461106     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301685110     Document Type: Article

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