Individual-level trait diversity concepts and indices to comprehensively describe community change in multidimensional trait space

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 808-818

  Fontana, Simone ^a   Petchey, Owen L ^b   Pomati, Francesco ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Divergence; Ecosystem functioning; Evenness; Individual level; Plankton; Richness; Trait diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INDEX METHOD; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; PLANKTON; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 84941784032     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12551     Document Type: Article

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