Linking multidimensional functional diversity to quantitative methods: A graphical hypothesis-evaluation framework

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 583-593

  Boersma, Kate S ^a   Dee, Laura E ^b   Miller, Steve J ^b   Bogan, Michael T ^c   Lytle, David A ^d   Gitelman, Alix I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Disturbance; Functional diversity; Multidimensional trait space; Multivariate analysis; Ordination; Trait based ecology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROUGHTS; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIVERS;

EID: 84962110343     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-0688     Document Type: Article

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