Community assembly and functional diversity along succession post-management

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1256-1265

  Bhaskar, Radika ^a,b,c   Dawson, Todd E ^b   Balvanera, Patricia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive exclusion; Functional traits; Habitat filtering; Management legacy; Neotropical secondary forest; Tropical dry forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908297842     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12257     Document Type: Article

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