Can monitoring data contribute to the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate? Evaluating data from a highly dynamic ecosystem

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 405-419

  Hodapp, Dorothee ^a   Kraft, Dietmar ^b   Hillebrand, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecosystem stability; Evenness; Functional diversity; Functional turnover; Species richness; Tidal flat

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PARAMETERIZATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMANY; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 84892531016     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-013-0609-y     Document Type: Article

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