A fully traits-based approach to modeling global vegetation distribution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 13733-13738

  Van Bodegom, Peter M ^a   Douma, Jacob C ^a,b   Verheijen, Lieneke M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Functional variation; Global vegetation map; Probabilistic model; Trait environment relationships; Vegetation attributes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; PLANTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84907190264     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304551110     Document Type: Article

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