Community convergence: Ecological and evolutionary

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 171-183

  Smith, Benjamin ^a   Wilson, J Bastow ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Character distributions; Filtering; Functional attributes; Limiting similarity; Niche space; Null model tests; Sieves

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NICHE;

EID: 0036385515     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02804230     Document Type: Article

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