Functional trait metrics are sensitive to the completeness of the species' trait data?

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-15

  Pakeman, Robin J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional dispersion; Functional divergence; Functional evenness; Functional richness; Plant functional traits; Rao's entropy; Trait sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892452993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12136     Document Type: Article

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