A negative heterogeneity-diversity relationship found in experimental grassland communities

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 545-555

  Gazol, Antonio ^a   Tamme, Riin ^a   Price, Jodi N ^a   Hiiesalu, Inga ^a   Laanisto, Lauri ^a,b   Pärtel, Meelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Light competition; Microfragmentation; Niche partitioning; Resource patchiness; Root foraging

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; META-ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ESTONIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ESTONIA; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; SOIL;

EID: 84884812157     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2623-x     Document Type: Article

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