Functional identity is the main driver of diversity effects in young tree communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 638-647

  Tobner, Cornelia M ^a   Paquette, Alain ^a   Gravel, Dominique ^b,c   Reich, Peter B ^d,e   Williams, Laura J ^d   Messier, Christian ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

IDENT; Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Biodiversity experiment; Complementarity; Functional diversity; Functional identity; Functional traits of trees; Overyielding

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROCEDURES; QUEBEC; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUEBEC; TREES;

EID: 84963674139     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12600     Document Type: Letter

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