Functional traits during succession: Is plant community assembly trait-driven?

Preslia

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 347-370

  Schleicher, Andrea ^a   Peppler Lisbach, Cord ^a   Kleyer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Coexistence mechanisms; Dispersal limitation; Limiting similarity; Outlying mean analysis; urban biodiversity

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LEAF AREA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; NICHE OVERLAP; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SUCCESSION; TOLERANCE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 79960348149     PISSN: 00327786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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