Long-term resilience of above- and belowground ecosystem components among contrasting ecosystems

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1836-1849

  Wardle, David A ^a   Jonsson, Micael ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aboveground Belowground Linkages; Disturbance; Ecosystem; Empetrum Hermaphroditum; Microbial Community; Nitrogen; Resilience; Stability

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOSS; NITROGEN; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; SOIL PROFILE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY; VASCULAR PLANT; ABUNDANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST FIRE; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; SOIL FERTILITY;

SWEDEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL; SWEDEN; TIME;

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; ISLANDS; PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

BRYOPHYTA; EMPETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84904337340     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1666.1     Document Type: Article

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