Are hotspots always hotspots? The relationship between diversity, resource and ecosystem functions in the Arctic.

The diversity-ecosystem function relationship is an important topic in ecology but has not received much attention in Arctic environments, and has rarely been tested for its stability in time. We studied the temporal variability of benthic ecosystem functioning at hotspots (sites with high benthic b...

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Main Authors: Heike Link, Dieter Piepenburg, Philippe Archambault
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3769377?pdf=render