Mapping functional traits: comparing abundance and presence-absence estimates at large spatial scales.

Efforts to quantify the composition of biological communities increasingly focus on functional traits. The composition of communities in terms of traits can be summarized in several ways. Ecologists are beginning to map the geographic distribution of trait-based metrics from various sources of data,...

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Main Authors: Tim Newbold, Stuart H M Butchart, Cağan H Sekercioğlu, Drew W Purves, Jörn P W Scharlemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3432103?pdf=render