Predicting current and future spatial community patterns of plant functional traits

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1158-1168

  Dubuis, Anne ^a   Rossier, Leila ^a   Pottier, Julien ^a,b   Pellissier, Loïc ^a   Vittoz, Pascal ^a   Guisan, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRY MATTER; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LEAF AREA; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT;

EID: 84886791725     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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