Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: Linking patterns and processes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1560-1569

  Jucker, Tommaso ^a   Bouriaud, Olivier ^b   Avacaritei, Daniel ^b   Coomes, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b STEFAN CEL MARE UNIVERSITY OF SUCEAVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Diversity stability relationships; FunDivEUROPE; Overyielding; Productivity; Species asynchrony; Species interactions; Tree ring data

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; MIXED FOREST; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TREE RING; WOOD; YIELD RESPONSE;

EUROPE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOMETRY; EUROPE; TREES;

EID: 84936750216     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12382     Document Type: Article

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