Estimating ecological production from biomass

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Jenkins, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Function; Macroecology; Model selection; Productivity; Productivity biomass relationships; Productivity diversity relationships; Species richness productivity relationships; Standardized major axis regression; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928817233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00409.1     Document Type: Article

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