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Using phylogenetic, functional and trait diversity to understand patterns of plant community productivity.
PloS one - 27 May 2009
Cadotte Marc W, Cavender-Bares Jeannine, Tilman David, Oakley Todd H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Two decades of research showing that increasing plant diversity results in greater community productivity has been predicated on greater functional diversity allowing access to more of the total available resources. Thus, understanding phenotypic attributes that allow species to partition resources is fundamentally important to explaining diversity-productivity relationships. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL...
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