No consistent effect of plant diversity on productivity.

Hector et al . ([1][1]) reported on BIODEPTH, a major international experiment on the response of plant productivity to variation in the number of plant species. They found “an overall log-linear reduction of average aboveground biomass with loss of species,” leading to what the accompanying

• Publication year

  2000

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  Science

• Publication date

  2000-08-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.289.5483.1255APMID 10979839
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