Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: Insights into assembly processes

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 857-866

  Purschke, Oliver ^a,b,c,d   Schmid, Barbara C ^a,b   Sykes, Martin T ^a   Poschlod, Peter ^e   Michalski, Stefan G ^f   Durka, Walter ^f   Kühn, Ingolf ^f   Winter, Marten ^c,f   Prentice, Honor C ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Arable to grassland succession; Beta diversity; Chronosequence; Community assembly; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Environmental filtering; Null model; Semi natural grasslands; Trait

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84879691577     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12098     Document Type: Article

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