Functional rarefaction: Estimating functional diversity from field data

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 286-296

  Walker, Steven C ^a   Poos, Mark S ^a   Jackson, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; RARITY; REFRACTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 38649095935     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.16171.x     Document Type: Article

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