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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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
2014
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3936387/ |