Biodiversity and ecosystem stability across scales in metacommunities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 510-518

  Wang, Shaopeng ^a   Loreau, Michel ^a  

^a Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Biotic homogenisation; Diversity stability relationship; Effective number of species; Environmental homogenisation; Metacommunity; Scale; Variability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84959449329     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12582     Document Type: Letter

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