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Trait-Based Community Assembly along an Elevational Gradient in Subalpine Forests: Quantifying the Roles of Environmental Factors in Inter- and Intraspecific Variability.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Luo Ya-Huang, Liu Jie, Tan Shao-Lin, Cadotte Marc William, Wang Yue-Hua, Xu Kun, Li De-Zhu, Gao Lian-Ming
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Understanding how communities respond to environmental variation is a central goal in ecology. Plant communities respond to environmental gradients via intraspecific and/or interspecific variation in plant functional traits. However, the relative contribution of these two responses to environmental factors remains poorly tested. We measured six functional traits (height, leaf thickness, specific leaf area (SLA),...
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