Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality
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Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality.
Species diversity promotes the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality). However, the relative functional importance of rare and common species in driving the biodiversity-multifunctionality relationship remains unknown. We studied the relationship between the diversity of rare and common species (according to their local abundances and across nine different trophic groups)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0269