Soil conditions and phylogenetic relatedness influence total community trait space during early plant succession

Journal of Plant Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 321-329

  Ulrich, Werner ^a   Piwczyński, Marcin ^a   Zaplata, Markus K ^b,c   Winter, Susanne ^d   Schaaf, Wolfgang ^b   Fischer, Anton ^c  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

habitat filtering; null model; phylogenetic signal; primary succession; species co occurrence; trait space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902765381     PISSN: 17529921     EISSN: 1752993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtt048     Document Type: Article

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