CWM and Rao's quadratic diversity: A unified framework for functional ecology

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 181-188

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Moretti, Marco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecological gradient; Environmental filters; Functional convergence divergence; Niche space; Trait dispersion; Trait mean

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONVERGENCE; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

APOIDEA;

EID: 80051669554     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1965-5     Document Type: Article

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