Incorporating intraspecific variation in tests of trait-based community assembly

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 767-775

  Siefert, Andrew ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental filtering; Functional trait; Intraspecific variation; Niche differentiation; Old field

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; DRY MATTER; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84867547505     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2351-7     Document Type: Article

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