A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 223-237

  Allan, Eric ^a,b   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a,c   Fischer, Markus ^b,d   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^e   Weigelt, Alexandra ^a,f   Roscher, Christiane ^e,g   Baade, Jussi ^a   Barnard, Romain L ^h   Beßler, Holger ⁱ   Buchmann, Nina ^h   Ebeling, Anne ^a   Eisenhauer, Nico ^a,c,j,k   Engels, Christof ⁱ   Fergus, Alexander J F ^l   Gleixner, Gerd ^e   Gubsch, Marlén ^l   Halle, Stefan ^a   Klein, Alexandra M ^k,m   Kertscher, Ilona ^a   Kuu, Annely ^a,n   Lange, Markus ^a   Le Roux, Xavier ^o   Meyer, Sebastian T ^a,c   Migunova, Varvara D ^p   Milcu, Alexandru ^q,r   Niklaus, Pascal A ^l   Oelmann, Yvonne ^s   Pašalić, Esther ^a   Petermann, Jana S ^l,t   Poly, Franck ^o   Rottstock, Tanja ^d   Sabais, Alexander C W ^j   Scherber, Christoph ^k   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^u   Scheu, Stefan ^j,k   Steinbeiss, Sibylle ^e,v   Schwichtenberg, Guido ^g   Temperton, Vicky ^e,w   Tscharntke, Teja ^k   Voigt, Winfried ^a   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^b   Wirth, Christian ^e,f   Schmid, Bernhard ^l   more..

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^m LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

ⁿ TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^o UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^p 'Federal Scientific Center All Russian Scientific Research Inst of Experimental Veterenari Medicina KI Skryabin and YR Kovalenko the Russian Academy of Sciences'   (Russian Federation)

^q IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r Ecotron   (France)

^s JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^t FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^u UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^v INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^w FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Bottom up effects; Carbon cycling; Ecological synthesis; Ecosystem processes; Grasslands; Jena experiment; Nitrogen cycling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; META-ANALYSIS; NITROGEN CYCLE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; META ANALYSIS; NITROGEN CYCLE; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN CYCLE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS;

EID: 84882874194     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2589-0     Document Type: Article

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