A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 299-305

  Laliberte, Etienne ^a   Legendre, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional composition; Functional dispersion; Functional divergence; Functional diversity; Functional evenness; Functional identity; Functional richness; Functional trait; Multivariate dispersion

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77649206378     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2244.1     Document Type: Article

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