A user's guide to functional diversity indices

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Ecological Monographs

• Publication date

  2010-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/08-2225.1
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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