Species traits weakly involved in plant responses to landscape properties in Mediterranean grasslands

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 432-442

  Bagaria, Guillem ^a   Pino, Joan ^a   Rodà, Ferran ^a   Guardiola, Moisès ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Grassland vegetation; Habitat loss; Land use; Landscape structure; Phylogenetic signal; Plant traits; RLQ analysis; Three table ordination

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; ORDINATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

CATALONIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84860149753     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01363.x     Document Type: Article

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