The effect of environmental and phylogenetic drivers on community assembly in an alpine meadow community

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2321-2328

  Yang, Zhongling ^a,b   Powell, Jeff R ^c   Zhang, Chunhui ^a   Du, Guozhen ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINXIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow; Environmental filtering; Evolutionary history; Fertilization; Functional redundancy; Grazing; Limiting similarity; Niche conservatism; Phylogenetic signal; Tibetan Plateau; Trait conservatism; Trait convergence

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GRAZING; LAND USE CHANGE; MEADOW; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; TIME;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILIZERS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; TIBET; TIME FACTORS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84869166436     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2212.1     Document Type: Article

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