Traits, habitats, and clades: Identifying traits of potential importance to environmental filtering

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Mayfield, Margaret M ^a   Boni, Maciej F ^b,c   Ackerly, David D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Dispersal mechanisms; Environmental filtering, pollination mechanisms; Exact binomial test; Functional traits

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; CLADISTICS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; MONOCOTYLEDON; PHYLOGENETICS; POLLINATION; RAINFOREST;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; LILIOPSIDA; PIPERACEAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; TREES;

EID: 66849128560     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599293     Document Type: Article

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