Functional diversity (FD), species richness and community composition

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 402-411

  Petchey, Owen L ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Community composition; FD; Functional dendrogram; Functional diversity; Functional groups; Functional redundancy; Species identity; Species richness; Traits

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0036098711     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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