Functional and phylogenetic community assembly linked to changes in species diversity in a long-term resource manipulation experiment

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 843-852

  Gerhold, Pille ^a,b   Price, Jodi N ^a,c   Püssa, Kersti ^a   Kalamees, Rein ^a   Aher, Kaia ^a   Kaasik, Ants ^a   Pärtel, Meelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fertilizer addition; Functional diversity; Habitat filtering; Limiting similarity; Phylogenetic diversity; Productivity; Resources; Sucrose addition; Trait convergence; Trait divergence; Weaker competitor exclusion

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIVERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; HABITAT QUALITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84881278020     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12052     Document Type: Article

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