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Effects of Total Resources, Resource Ratios, and Species Richness on Algal Productivity and Evenness at Both Metacommunity and Local Scales

Lars Gamfeldt; Helmut Hillebrand · 2011 · PLoS ONE

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Abstract

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 mixture of species will maximize productivity across the whole metacommunity. It also predicts that a balanced supply of resources within local patches should favor species coexistence, whereas resource imbalance would favor the dominance of one species. We performed an experiment with five freshwater al

Abstract by Lars Gamfeldt; Helmut Hillebrand, PLoS ONE (2011) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0021972