Using plant functional traits to explain diversity-productivity relationships.

Using plant functional traits to explain diversity-productivity relationships.

The different hypotheses proposed to explain positive species richness-productivity relationships, i.e. selection effect and complementarity effect, imply that plant functional characteristics are at the core of a mechanistic understanding of biodiversity effects.We used two community-wide measures...

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Main Authors: Christiane Roscher, Jens Schumacher, Marlén Gubsch, Annett Lipowsky, Alexandra Weigelt, Nina Buchmann, Bernhard Schmid, Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3356333?pdf=render

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