Trait diversity on the phylogeny of cerrado woody species

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1741-1751

  Batalha, Marco Antônio ^a   Silva, Igor Aurélio ^b   Cianciaruso, Marcus Vinicius ^c   De Carvalho, Gustavo Henrique ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CERRADO; CRETACEOUS; DICOTYLEDON; DIVERGENCE; DOMINANCE; FOREST FIRE; GRASS; NEOGENE; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POTASSIUM; SAVANNA; VEGETATION TYPE;

BRAZIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FABACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MYRTACEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 80055085683     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19513.x     Document Type: Article

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