Changes in the dominant assembly mechanism drive species loss caused by declining resources

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 163-170

  Thorn, Simon ^a,b   Bässler, Claus ^a   Bernhardt Römermann, Markus ^c   Cadotte, Marc ^d,e   Heibl, Christoph ^b   Schäfer, Hanno ^b   Seibold, Sebastian ^a,b   Müller, Jörg ^a,b  

^a BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dead wood ecology; Forest biodiversity; Functional traits; Phylogenetic diversity; Salvage logging; Saproxylic

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEAD WOOD; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST DYNAMICS; LOGGING (TIMBER); PHYLOGENETICS; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SAPROXYLIC ORGANISM; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84953368336     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12548     Document Type: Article

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