Functional traits analyses: Scaling-up from species to community level

Plant and Soil

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-12

  Castro Díez, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Community level analysis; Environmental gradients; Plant functional traits; Species level analysis; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; PLANT COMMUNITY; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84864128482     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1185-8     Document Type: Article

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