Evaluation of an integrated framework for biodiversity with a new metric for functional dispersion.

Growing interest in understanding ecological patterns from phylogenetic and functional perspectives has driven the development of metrics that capture variation in evolutionary histories or ecological functions of species. Recently, an integrated framework based on Hill numbers was developed that me...

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Main Authors: Steven J Presley, Samuel M Scheiner, Michael R Willig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4141827?pdf=render