Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation
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Title
Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation
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Keywords
Species diversity, Ants, Birds, Skewness, Biodiversity, Community structure, Relative abundance distribution, Data reduction
Journal
PLoS One
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages e0149270
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Online
2016-02-17
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0149270
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