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      Biodiversity and the productivity and stability of ecosystems

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      Trends in Ecology & Evolution
      Elsevier BV

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          Attempts to unveil the relationships between the taxonomic diversity, productivity and stability of ecosystems continue to generate inconclusive, contradictory and controversial conclusions. New insights from recent studies support the hypothesis that species diversity enhances productivity and stability in some ecosystems, but not in others. Appreciation is growing for the ways that particular ecosystem features, such as environmental variability and nutrient stress, can influence biotic interactions. Alternatives to the diversity-stability hypothesis have been proposed, and experimental approaches are starting to evolve to test these hypotheses and to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the functional role of species diversity.

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          Journal
          Trends in Ecology & Evolution
          Trends in Ecology & Evolution
          Elsevier BV
          01695347
          September 1996
          September 1996
          : 11
          : 9
          : 372-377
          Article
          10.1016/0169-5347(96)10040-9
          21237882
          c14bd0d7-7732-4347-9f24-340287336be1
          © 1996

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