Species dynamics alter community diversity-biomass stability relationships

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1387-1396

  Fowler, Mike S ^a,b   Laakso, Jouni ^b   Kaitala, Veijo ^b   Ruokolainen, Lasse ^b   Ranta, Esa ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Complex dynamics; Dynamical instability; Environmental stochasticity; Intrinsic growth rate; Portfolio insurance effect; Species environment interactions; Species species interactions; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931749050     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01862.x     Document Type: Article

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