Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lefcheck, Jonathan S ^a   Byrnes, Jarrett E K ^b   Isbell, Forest ^c   Gamfeldt, Lars ^d   Griffin, John N ^e   Eisenhauer, Nico ^f,g   Hensel, Marc J S ^b   Hector, Andy ^h   Cardinale, Bradley J ⁱ   Duffy, J Emmett ^a,j  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HERBIVORE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT; HERBIVORE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84928795246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7936     Document Type: Article

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