Article
Phenotypic diversity and ecosystem functioning in changing environments: a theoretical framework.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 Sept 2001
Norberg J, Swaney D P, Dushoff J, Lin J, Casagrandi R, Levin S A
Abstract excerpt
Biodiversity plays a vital role for ecosystem functioning in a changing environment. Yet theoretical approaches that incorporate diversity into classical ecosystem theory do not provide a general dynamic theory based on mechanistic principles. In this paper, we suggest that approaches developed for quantitative genetics can be extended to ecosystem functioning by modeling the means and variances of phenotypes...
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