How do different measures of functional diversity perform?

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 847-857

  Petchey, Owen L ^a   Hector, Andy ^b,c   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biomass production; Complementarity; Ecosystem; Functional groups; Resource use differentiation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 1642465413     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0226     Document Type: Article

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