Characterizing scale-dependent community assembly using the functional-diversity-area relationship

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2392-2402

  Smith, Adam B ^a   Sandel, Brody ^b   Kraft, Nathan J B ^c   Carey, Susan ^d  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic filtering; Biotic sorting; Community assembly; Functional diversity; Functionaldiversity area relationship; Null models; Spatial scale; Species area relationship; Traits

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FILTER; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84887964579     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-2109.1     Document Type: Article

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