Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity

Nature

Volumn 549, Issue 7671, 2017, Pages 261-264

  Emmett Duffy, J ^a   Godwin, Casey M ^b   Cardinale, Bradley J ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CHANGE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; META ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD ANIMAL; WILDERNESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WILDERNESS;

EID: 85030760101     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature23886     Document Type: Article

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