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Title: Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [9];  [10];  [11];  [12];  [13];  [14];  [15];
  1. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
  2. Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Maracanã Rio de Janeiro Brazil
  3. Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Dukelska 135 379 82 Třeboň Czech Republic, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Na Zlate Stoce 1 370 05 České Budějovice Czech Republic
  4. Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf Switzerland, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zürich Switzerland
  5. School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Victoria 3800 Australia
  6. Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG), Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Darwin 2 28049 Madrid Spain
  7. Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ UK
  8. Laboratoire Chrono-Environnement, UMR 6249 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 16 route de Gray 25030 Besançon Cedex France
  9. INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, UMR 1402 Ecosys, Route de Saint-Cyr, RD 10, 78026 Versailles Cedex France
  10. Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), C/Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (Ce3C), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), Ed. C2, Campo Grande 1749-06 Lisboa Portugal
  11. Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, 73376 Le Bourget-du-Lac France
  12. Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7044 750 07 Uppsala Sweden
  13. Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000-456 Coimbra Portugal
  14. Department of Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands
  15. Department of Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands, Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Postbox 11103 9700 CC Groningen The Netherlands
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USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (NE-5)
OSTI Identifier:
1401490
Grant/Contract Number:  
865.12.003
Resource Type:
Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Functional Ecology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Functional Ecology Journal Volume: 31 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0269-8463
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

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Moretti, Marco, Dias, André T. C., de Bello, Francesco, Altermatt, Florian, Chown, Steven L., Azcárate, Francisco M., Bell, James R., Fournier, Bertrand, Hedde, Mickaël, Hortal, Joaquín, Ibanez, Sébastien, Öckinger, Erik, Sousa, José Paulo, Ellers, Jacintha, Berg, Matty P., and Fox, ed., Charles. Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits. United Kingdom: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12776.
Moretti, Marco, Dias, André T. C., de Bello, Francesco, Altermatt, Florian, Chown, Steven L., Azcárate, Francisco M., Bell, James R., Fournier, Bertrand, Hedde, Mickaël, Hortal, Joaquín, Ibanez, Sébastien, Öckinger, Erik, Sousa, José Paulo, Ellers, Jacintha, Berg, Matty P., & Fox, ed., Charles. Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12776
Moretti, Marco, Dias, André T. C., de Bello, Francesco, Altermatt, Florian, Chown, Steven L., Azcárate, Francisco M., Bell, James R., Fournier, Bertrand, Hedde, Mickaël, Hortal, Joaquín, Ibanez, Sébastien, Öckinger, Erik, Sousa, José Paulo, Ellers, Jacintha, Berg, Matty P., and Fox, ed., Charles. Mon . "Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12776.
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