Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

Journal of Plant Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 87-93

  Violle, Cyrille ^a   Jiang, Lin ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional diversity; Niche breadth; Niche position; Plant functional traits; Trait niche

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949455515     PISSN: 17529921     EISSN: 1752993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtp007     Document Type: Article

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