The ecology of differences: Assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1234-1244

  Cadotte, Marc ^a   Albert, Cecile H ^b,c   Walker, Steve C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biodiversity ecosystem function; Community assembly; Ecological gradients; Functional diversity; Null models; Phylogenetic community ecology; Phylogenetic diversity; Trait divergence; Trait based ecology; Traitgram

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DIVERGENCE; ELEVATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIODIVERSITY-ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; ECOLOGICAL GRADIENTS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; METHODOLOGY; NULL MODELS; PHYLOGENETIC COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; TRAIT DIVERGENCE; TRAIT-BASED ECOLOGY; TRAITGRAM;

BIODIVERSITY; BIODIVERSITY-ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; ECOLOGICAL GRADIENTS; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; NULL MODELS; PHYLOGENETIC COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; TRAIT DIVERGENCE; TRAIT-BASED ECOLOGY; TRAITGRAM;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84883817016     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12161     Document Type: Article

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