Functional-diversity indices can be driven by methodological choices and species richness

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 341-347

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community ecology; Dendrogram; Functional diversity; Multivariate analysis; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 63849109180     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1638.1     Document Type: Article

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