Characterizations of how species mediate ecosystem properties require more comprehensive functional effect descriptors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hale, R ^a,b   Mavrogordato, M N ^b   Tolhurst, T J ^a   Solan, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; POLYCHAETA; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; POLYCHAETA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923261112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06463     Document Type: Article

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