Taxonomic and functional diversity of woody plant communities on opposing slopes of inselbergs in southern Brazil

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 187-197

  Carlucci, Marcos B ^a   Bastazini, Vinicius A G ^a   Hofmann, Gabriel S ^a   de Macedo, Josielma H ^a   Iob, Graziela ^a   Duarte, Leandro D S ^a   Hartz, Sandra M ^a   Müller, Sandra C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

aspect; diversity profile; environmental filtering; hill shading; Pampa biome; rocky outcrop; slope exposure; solar radiation; trait convergence; trait divergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924574426     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2014.955544     Document Type: Article

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