The unimodal relationship between species’ functional traits and habitat gradients provides a family of indices supporting the conservation of functional trait diversity

Plant Ecology

Volumn 216, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 725-740

  Faith, Daniel P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Convergent evolution; ED method; Extinction; IUCN; Ordination; Phylogenetic diversity; Planetary boundary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939997028     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: 15735052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-015-0454-z     Document Type: Article

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