Assessing the functional turnover of species assemblages with tailored dissimilarity matrices

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1089-1098

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Moretti, Marco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE FOREST; TURNOVER;

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EID: 77954589639     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.18202.x     Document Type: Article

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