Effects of growing conditions and source habitat on plant traits and functional group definition

Functional Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 85-95

  Dyer, A R ^a,c   Goldberg, D E ^a   Turkington, R ^b   Sayre, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual species; Cluster analysis; Environmental change; Principal components analysis; Resource availability; Trait correlations

Indexed keywords

HABITAT QUALITY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0035128805     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2001.00487.x     Document Type: Article

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