A new measure of functional evenness and some of its properties

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Bacaro, Giovanni ^b,c   Moretti, Marco ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHESTNUT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FIRE ECOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL EVENNESS; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT STRESS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SECONDARY SUCCESSION (COMMUNITY); SWITZERLAND; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84905670994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104060     Document Type: Article

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