Plant diversity controls arthropod biomass and temporal stability

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1457-1464

  Borer, Elizabeth T ^a   Seabloom, Eric W ^a   Tilman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Diversity productivity; Ecosystem function; Insect community; Long term experiment; Primary and secondary production; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84931748995     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12006     Document Type: Article

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