Measuring and explaining large-scale distribution of functional and phylogenetic diversity in birds: Separating ecological drivers from methodological choices

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 669-678

  Calba, Sarah ^a,b   Maris, Virginie ^a   Devictor, Vincent ^b  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bird assemblages; Breeding bird survey; Community assembly rules; France; Functional diversity; Null models; Phylogenetic diversity; Quadratic entropy; Robustness analysis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; BREEDING; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PHYLOGENETICS; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

FRANCE;

AVES;

EID: 84898546234     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12148     Document Type: Article

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