Fournier, BertrandMalysheva, ElenaMazei, YuriMoretti, MarcoMitchell, Edward A. D.2012-05-112012-05-112012-05-11201210.1016/j.ejsobi.2011.05.008https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/80257WOS:000302736500012Functional traits (FT) offer a new framework to understand the ecology of organisms and overcome taxonomic difficulties that currently limit the study of minute soil taxa. FT are likely to be selected by environmental filters and hence they may provide more direct information on ecosystem characteristics than the species composition of a community.Testate amoebaeFloodplainFunctional traitsBioindicationCommunity Structure4Th-Corner ProblemWest GreenlandDiversityRiverSoilBiodiversityIslandPlantQeqertarsuaqtext::journal::journal article::research article