Does trait conservatism guarantee that indicators of phylogenetic community structure will reveal niche-based assembly processes along stress gradients?

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 820-833

  Mason, Norman W H ^a   Pavoine, S ^b,c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84881302677     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12033     Document Type: Article

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