Low-dimensional trade-offs fail to explain richness and structure in species-rich plant communities

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 495-511

  Esther, Alexandra ^a,b   Groeneveld, Jürgen ^c,d   Enright, Neal J ^e   Miller, Ben P ^f   Lamont, Byron B ^g   Perry, George L W ^d   Tietjen, Britta ^h   Jeltsch, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Julius Kuehn Institute (JKI)   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f BOTANIC GARDENS AND PARKS AUTHORITY   (Australia)

^g CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boosted regression tree; CART; Co existence; Individual based model; Plant diversity; Plant functional types; Regression tree analysis; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80053574804     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-010-0092-y     Document Type: Article

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