Per capita interactions and stress tolerance drive stress-induced changes in biodiversity effects on ecosystem functions

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Baert, Jan M ^a   Janssen, Colin R ^a   Sabbe, Koen ^a   De Laender, Frederik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROALGA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRESS RESISTANCE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MICROALGA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PER CAPITA INTERACTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84983284959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12486     Document Type: Article

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