Fourth-corner generation of plant functional response groups

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 561-584

  Lehsten, Veiko ^a,b   Harmand, Peter ^a   Kleyer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Canopy height; Fourth corner method; Functional groups; Functional response groups; Null models; Plant; Plant traits; Seed weight; Spacer length

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CORRELATION; DATA SET; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT; SOIL FERTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70450250478     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-008-0098-4     Document Type: Article

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