Dendrograms and measuring functional diversity

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1422-1426

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 34447647474     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15894.x     Document Type: Article

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