Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity

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

Volumn 110, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 11911-11916

  Isbell, Forest ^a   Reich, Peter B ^a,b   Tilman, David ^a,c   Hobbie, Sarah E ^a   Polasky, Stephen ^a,d   Binder, Seth ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Community Ecology

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; HYPOTHESIS; NUTRIENT; POACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL FERTILIZATION; SPECIES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZERS; LINEAR MODELS; MINNESOTA; NITROGEN; POACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880386652     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310880110     Document Type: Article

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