Thresholds of biodiversity and ecosystem function in a forest ecosystem undergoing dieback
Abstract Ecological thresholds, which represent points of rapid change in ecological properties, are of major scientific and societal concern. However, very little research has focused on empirically testing the occurrence of thresholds in temperate terrestrial ecosystems. To address this knowledge...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2017-07-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06082-6 |