Contrasting effects of productivity and disturbance on plant functional diversity at local and metacommunity scales

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 834-842

  Laliberté, Etienne ^a   Norton, David A ^b   Scott, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c not available   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Disturbance; Environmental filtering; Functional diversity; Land use change; Limiting similarity; Null models

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; DISTURBANCE; DIVERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LAND USE CHANGE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES POOL;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84881304123     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12044     Document Type: Article

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