Testing community assembly predictions for nominal and continuous plant traits in species-rich grasslands

Preslia

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 329-346

  Schamp, Brandon ^a   Hettenbergerová, Eva ^b   Hájek, Michal ^b,c  

^a ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Diversity; Environmental filtering; Functional diversity; Limiting Similarity; Plant functional traits; Trait convergence; Trait dispersion; Trait divergence

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSEMBLY RULE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FLOWERING; GRASSLAND; HEIGHT; MOISTURE CONTENT; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; SEED PRODUCTION; SLOPE; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 79960365633     PISSN: 00327786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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