Biodiversity simultaneously enhances the production and stability of community biomass, but the effects are independent

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1697-1707

  Cardinale, Bradley J ^a   Gross, Kevin ^b   Fritschie, Keith ^a   Flombaum, Pedro ^c   Fox, Jeremy W ^d   Rixen, Christian ^e   Van Ruijven, Jasper ^f   Reich, Peter B ^g,h   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ⁱ   Wilsey, Brian J ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^h WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^j IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community biomass; Ecosystem functioning; Ecosystem stability; Productivity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ALGAE;

EID: 84881244311     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1334.1     Document Type: Article

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