Convex hulls, habitat filtering, and functional diversity: Mathematical elegance versus ecological interpretability

Community Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-250

  Podani, J ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Convergence; Divergence; Diversity; Functional traits; Habitat filtering; Multivariate range; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT USE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 73649097572     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.10.2009.2.15     Document Type: Article

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