Combining taxon-by-trait and taxon-by-site matrices for analysing trait patterns of macroinvertebrate communities: A rejoinder to Monaghan & Soares (2014)

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1551-1557

  Schmera, Dénes ^a,b   Podani, János ^b,c   Eros, Tibor ^b   Heino, Jani ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Macroinvertebrates; Trait based analyses; Weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901811353     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12369     Document Type: Article

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