Advancing biodiversity-ecosystem functioning science using high-density tree-based experiments over functional diversity gradients

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 609-621

  Tobner, Cornelia M ^a   Paquette, Alain ^a   Reich, Peter B ^b,c   Gravel, Dominique ^d,e   Messier, Christian ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^e Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Experimental design; Functional diversity; Functional traits; IDENT; Tree dominated ecosystems

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RESOURCE USE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EUROPE; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; TREES;

EID: 84897646271     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2815-4     Document Type: Article

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