Towards a consensus for calculating dendrogram-based functional diversity indices

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 794-800

  Mouchet, Maud ^a   Guilhaumon, François ^a   Villéger, Sébastien ^a   Mason, Norman W H ^b   Tomasini, Jean Antoine ^a   Mouillot, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIVERSITY INDEX; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 42949149590     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16594.x     Document Type: Article

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