Plant functional traits capture species richness variations along a flooding gradient

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-398

  Violle, Cyrille ^a,b   Bonis, Anne ^c   Plantegenest, Manuel ^d   Cudennec, Christophe ^e,f   Damgaard, Christian ^g   Marion, Benoît ^c   Le Cœur, Didier ^a   Bouzillé, Jan Bernard ^d  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^e UMR SAS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; COEXISTENCE; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LEAF AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 79951760214     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18525.x     Document Type: Article

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