Biodiversity, productivity, and the spatial insurance hypothesis revisited

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 380, Issue , 2015, Pages 426-435

  Shanafelt, David W ^a   Dieckmann, Ulf ^b,d   Jonas, Matthias ^b,e   Franklin, Oskar ^b,f   Loreau, Michel ^c   Perrings, Charles ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS ^*  (Austria)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^d Ecology and Evolution International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis   (Austria)

^e Advanced Systems Analysis International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis   (Austria)

^f Ecosystem Services and Management International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Risk; Stability; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ECOSYSTEM; MARKOV CHAIN; PRODUCTIVITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EFFICIENCY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84933566145     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.06.017     Document Type: Article

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