Phylogenetic and functional diversities: New approaches to community Ecology;Diversidades filogenética e funcional: Novas abordagens para a Ecologia de comunidades

Biota Neotropica

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 93-103

  Cianciaruso, Marcus Vinicius ^a   Silva, Igor Aurélio ^b   Batalha, Marco Antônio ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Community; Complementarity; Diversity; Niche; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951058280     PISSN: 16786424     EISSN: 16760611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1676-06032009000300008     Document Type: Article

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