Article
Phenotypic diversity and stability of ecosystem processes.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Aug 1999
Loreau M, Behera N
Abstract excerpt
The resistance of an ecosystem to perturbations and the speed at which it recovers after the perturbations, which is called resilience, are two important components of ecosystem stability. It has been suggested that biodiversity increases the resilience and resistance of aggregated ecosystem processes. We test this hypothesis using a theoretical model of a nutrient-limited ecosystem in a heterogeneous...
Topics
- Ecosystem
- Factor Analysis, Statistical
- Food Chain
- Genetic Variation
- Models, Genetic
- Phenotype
- Plant Development
- Plants
- Reproducibility of Results
