Effects of total resources, resource ratios, and species richness on algal productivity and evenness at both metacommunity and local scales.

The study of the interrelationship between productivity and biodiversity is a major research field in ecology. Theory predicts that if essential resources are heterogeneously distributed across a metacommunity, single species may dominate productivity in individual metacommunity patches, but a mixtu...

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Main Authors: Lars Gamfeldt, Helmut Hillebrand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3130793?pdf=render