Functional diversity measures: An overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 867-876

  Mouchet, Maud A ^a   Villéger, Sébastien ^a   Mason, Norman W H ^b   Mouillot, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Artificial data; Functional divergence; Functional diversity measures; Functional evenness; Functional richness; Limiting similarity; Motion model; Neutrality; Niche filtering

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 78751664289     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01695.x     Document Type: Article

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