Species that share traits do not necessarily form distinct and universally applicable functional effect groups

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 516, Issue , 2014, Pages 23-34

  Murray, Fiona ^a,b   Douglas, Alex ^a   Solan, Martin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioirrigation; Bioturbation; Ecosystem function; Functional diversity; Functional groups; Functional traits

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; INVERTEBRATE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84916618543     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps11020     Document Type: Article

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