Functional trait assembly through ecological and evolutionary time

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 239-250

  Stegen, James C ^a   Swenson, Nathan G ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Body size; Community assembly rules; Functional diversity; Morphological space; Nearest neighbor difference

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GUILD STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 72549115620     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-009-0047-3     Document Type: Article

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