Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 109-126

  Cornwell, William K ^a   Ackerly, David D ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Environment species trait relationship; Environmental gradient; Habitat filtering; Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, California, USA; Limiting similarity; Plant functional traits.

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COASTAL ZONE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF AREA; LIGHT EFFECT; SEED; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TURNOVER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CALIFORNIA; JASPER RIDGE BIOLOGICAL PRESERVE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65349175908     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1134.1     Document Type: Article

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