Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 771-784

  Laughlin, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Ecosystem management; Environmental filtering; Functional diversity; Functional traits; Limiting similarity; Mass ratio; Novel ecosystems; Reference conditions; Trait hierarchies

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FILTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIMITING SIMILARITY; MASS RATIO; NOVEL ECOSYSTEMS; REFERENCE CONDITIONS; TRAIT HIERARCHIES;

COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FILTERING; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; LIMITING SIMILARITY; MASS RATIO; NOVEL ECOSYSTEMS; REFERENCE CONDITIONS; TRAIT HIERARCHIES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84901694590     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12288     Document Type: Article

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