Environmental and trait variability constrain community structure and the biodiversity-productivity relationship

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1463-1474

  Hodapp, Dorothee ^a   Hillebrand, Helmut ^a   Blasius, Bernd ^a   Ryabov, Alexey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecosystem function; Heterogeneity; Metacommunities; Productivity; Resource competition; Selection and complementarity; Spatial resource; Species biodiversity; Species traits

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COMPLEMENTARITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SELECTION; SPECIES POOL;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84971574741     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-0730.1     Document Type: Article

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