The assembly of tropical tree communities - the advances and shortcomings of phylogenetic and functional trait analyses

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 264-276

  Swenson, Nathan G ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 84875364030     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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