Plant Species Diversity Mediates Ecosystem Stability of Natural Dune Grasslands in Response to Drought

Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1383-1394

  van Rooijen, Nils M ^a,c   de Keersmaecker, Wanda ^a   Ozinga, Wim A ^b,c   Coppin, Pol ^a   Hennekens, Stephan M ^b   Schaminée, Joop H J ^b,c   Somers, Ben ^a   Honnay, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

diversity; drought; dune grasslands; ecosystem functioning; NDVI; remote sensing; stability

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT STRESS; DUNE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRASSLAND; NDVI; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NETHERLANDS;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84947494144     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9905-6     Document Type: Article

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