Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-86

  Laliberté, Etienne ^a   Wells, Jessie A ^b   Declerck, Fabrice ^c   Metcalfe, Daniel J ^d   Catterall, Carla P ^e   Queiroz, Cibele ^f   Aubin, Isabelle ^g   Bonser, Stephen P ^h   Ding, Yi ⁱ   Fraterrigo, Jennifer M ^j   McNamara, Sean ^b   Morgan, John W ^k   Merlos, Dalia Sánchez ^c   Vesk, Peter A ^l   Mayfield, Margaret M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

ⁱ RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^k LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Functional diversity; Land use change; Redundancy; Resilience; Response diversity

Indexed keywords

BIOME; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; LAND USE CHANGE; META-ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VULNERABILITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FACTUAL DATABASE; META ANALYSIS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 72949094873     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x     Document Type: Article

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