Ecosystem engineering effects on species diversity across ecosystems: a meta‐analysis
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Summary
This study is the first attempt to build an integrative framework of engineering effects on species diversity; it highlights the importance of considering latitude, habitat, engineering functional group, taxon and persistence of their effects in future theoretical and empirical studies.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2015-08-01
- Cited by
- 193
- References
- 191
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- https://openalex.org/W1747618632
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:7481717
Keywords
Ecosystem engineer, Species richness, Ecosystem, Ecology, Habitat
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