Quantifying functional diversity with graph-theoretical measures: Advantages and pitfalls

Community Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-16

  Ricotta, C ^a   Moretti, M ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clustering; Minimum spanning tree; Pair wise species distances

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 49249128604     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.9.2008.1.2     Document Type: Article

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