Realistic diversity loss and variation in soil depth independently affect community-level plant nitrogen use

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-97

  Selmants, Paul C ^b   Zavaleta, Erika S ^a   Wolf, Amelia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Environmental heterogeneity; Nonrandom diversity loss; Nutrient cycling; Resource use; Species loss

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT LOSS; HETEROGENEITY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE USE; SOIL DEPTH; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; METABOLISM; PLANT; SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; NITROGEN; PLANTS; SOIL;

EID: 84893321407     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1192.1     Document Type: Article

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