Disentangling community functional components in a litter-macrodetritivore model system reveals the predominance of the mass ratio hypothesis

Recent investigations have shown that two components of community trait composition are important for key ecosystem processes: (i) the community-weighted mean trait value (CWM), related to the mass ratio hypothesis and dominant trait values in the community, and (ii) functional diversity (FD), relat...

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Main Authors: Bílá, Karolína, Moretti, Marco, Bello, Francesco, Dias, André TC, Pezzatti, Gianni B, Van Oosten, Arend Raoul, Berg, Matty P
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3936387/