Correlations between phylogenetic and functional diversity: Mathematical artefacts or true ecological and evolutionary processes?

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 781-793

  Pavoine, Sandrine ^a,b   Gasc, Amandine ^a,c   Bonsall, Michael B ^b   Mason, Norman W H ^d  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assembly processes; Biodiversity; Diversity indices; Environmental filtering; Niche complementarity; Null model; Phylogenetic signal; Simpson index; Species richness; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COASTAL PLAIN; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MARSH; NICHE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SALINITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURROGATE METHOD;

ALGERIA;

EID: 84881281254     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12051     Document Type: Article

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