Improving plant functional groups for dynamic models of biodiversity: At the crossroads between functional and community ecology

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3464-3475

  Boulangeat, Isabelle ^a   Philippe, Pauline ^a   Abdulhak, Sylvain ^b   Douzet, Roland ^a   Garraud, Luc ^b   Lavergne, Sébastien ^a   Lavorel, Sandra ^a   Van Es, Jérémie ^b   Vittoz, Pascal ^c   Thuiller, Wilfried ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Domaine de Charance   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity scenarios; Dynamic vegetation model; Emergent groups; Functional diversity; Functional traits; Hybrid model; Plant functional groups; Plant functional types

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PARAMETERIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ECRINS NATIONAL PARK; FRANCE;

EID: 84867217832     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02783.x     Document Type: Article

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