The importance of biodiversity and dominance for multiple ecosystem functions in a human-modifed tropical landscape

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2772-2779

  Lohbeck, Madelon ^a,b,c   Bongers, Frans ^a   Martinez Ramos, Miguel ^b   Poorter, Lourens ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^c WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Dominance; Functional traits; Multifunctionality; Secondary forest; Species richness; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PHYTOMASS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SECONDARY FOREST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST; WOOD;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; HUMAN; MEXICO; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; HUMANS; MEXICO; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84990842067     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1499     Document Type: Article

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