Does taxonomic homogenization imply functional homogenization in temperate forest herb layer communities?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 431-443

  Tobias, Naaf ^a   Monika, Wulf ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Biotic differentiation; Diversity partitioning; Functional diversity; Rao's quadratic entropy; Resurvey

Indexed keywords

DECADAL VARIATION; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HERB; HOMOGENEITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATE FOREST;

GERMANY;

EID: 84857916002     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9990-3     Document Type: Article

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