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Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

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A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

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Biological soil crusts increase the resistance of soil nitrogen dynamics to changes in temperatures in a semi-arid ecosystem

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Lichen functional groups as ecological indicators of the effects of land-use in Mediterranean ecosystems

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Using lichen functional diversity to assess the effects of atmospheric ammonia in Mediterranean woodlands

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CWM and Rao’s quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology

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Spatial distribution and physiology of biological soil crusts from semi-arid central Spain are related to soil chemistry and shrub cover

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Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

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A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

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Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

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Distribution patterns of soil lichens across the principal biomes of southern Africa

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The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

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Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

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Biological soil crusts exhibit a dynamic response to seasonal rain and release from grazing with implications for soil stability

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Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils

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Dissociation and metal-binding characteristics of yellow lichen substances suggest a relationship with site preferences of lichens

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Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

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Revisiting classic water erosion models in drylands: The strong impact of biological soil crusts

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Are soil lichen communities structured by biotic interactions? A null model analysis

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