Interspecific differences in determinants of plant species distribution and the relationships with functional traits

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 950-957

  Aiba, Masahiro ^a,b   Takafumi, Hino ^a   Hiura, Tsutom ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Dispersal limitation; Forest herbs; Functional traits; Metacommunity; Phylogenetic signal; Spatial structure; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HERB; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; METAPOPULATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATE FOREST;

JAPAN;

EID: 84862531055     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01959.x     Document Type: Article

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