Community trait response to environment: Disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 856-863

  Lepš, Jan ^a,b   de Bello, Francesco ^c   Šmilauer, Petr ^a   Doležal, Jiří ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DRY MATTER; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MEADOW; MOWING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TURNOVER;

CZECH REPUBLIC; JIHOCESKY;

EID: 80054838132     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06904.x     Document Type: Article

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