Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-174

  De Bello, Francesco ^a,b   Lavorel, Sandra ^b   Albert, Cécile H ^b   Thuiller, Wilfried ^b   Grigulis, Karl ^c   Dolezal, Jiři ^a,d   Janeček, Štepán ^a   Lepš, Jan ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community dynamics; Grassland management; Mass ratio hypothesis; Repeated measures; Trait convergence and divergence; Trait intraspecific variability; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051801330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00071.x     Document Type: Article

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