Large-scale forest inventories of the United States and China reveal positive effects of biodiversity on productivity

Forest Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Watson, James V ^a   Liang, Jingjing ^a   Tobin, Patrick C ^b,c   Lei, Xiangdong ^d   Rentch, James S ^a   Artis, Catherine E ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological conservation; Bootstrap; Continental map of forest diversity; Forest management; Spatial autocorrelation; Tree species diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016273401     PISSN: 20956355     EISSN: 21975620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40663-015-0045-4     Document Type: Article

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