How should a dendrogram-based measure of functional diversity function? A rejoinder to Petchey and Gaston

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1427-1430

  Podani, János ^a   Schmera, Dénes ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 34447640527     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.16160.x     Document Type: Review

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