HOW DO DIFFERENT MEASURES OF FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY PERFORM

By Owen L. Petchey, Andy Hector, Kevin J. Gaston. 2004

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients (2013, background): “2012; Spasojevic & Suding 2012) or ecosystem functioning (Petchey et al. 2004; Mouillot et al. 2011).”
Long-term erosion of tree reproductive trait diversity in edge-dominated Atlantic forest fragments (2009, background): “Evenness-based indices for estimating functional diversity has been frequently recommended (see Petchey and Gaston, 2002; Petchey et al., 2004; Ricotta, 2005).”
Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa. (2009, background): “The use of an abundance-weighted functional diversity measure is possibly more important when linked to a particular ecosystem function, although FD has been shown to be a better predictor of ecosystem function than species richness or functional group richness in several grassland communities ( Pet”
Functional Diversity — at the Crossroads between Ecosystem Functioning and Environmental Filters (2007, background): “…most researchers now recognize that FD is more relevant to local-scale ecosystem functioning than taxonomic diversity (Grime 1998, 2002; Chapin et al. 2000b; Díaz and Cabido 2001; Loreau et al. 2001; Tilman 2001; Naeem and Wright 2003; Petchey 2004; Petchey et al. 2004; Hooper et al. 2005).”
On dendrogram-based measures of functional diversity (2006, unknown): “The measurement of functional diversity (FD) has been in the focus of ecological research for several years (Tilman 2001, Mason et al. 2003, 2005, Naeem and Wright 2003, Petchey et al. 2004, Botta-Dukát 2005, Mouillot et al. 2005, Ricotta 2005).”
A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “…entropy: Lepš et al. 2006) functional distances between species pairs in a multivariate functional trait space, distances between species along a hierarchical classification (FD: Petchey et al. 2004) or on the distribution of abundances along functional trait axes (FDvar: Mason et al. 2003).”
A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity-productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands (2013, background): “Recent studies in experimental plant communities have shown that functional trait diversity promotes primary productivity (Petchey et al., 2004; Cadotte et al., 2009; Flynn et al., 2011; Mouillot et al., 2011).”
Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity (2009, methodology): “All these multivariate techniques, while relaxed from strict a priori trait decisions, may still be sensitive to which traits are included in the analyses [25].”
Functional richness: Overview of indices and underlying concepts (2018, background): “…was highly correlated with the ecosystem productivity (Tilman et al. 1997, Hector et al. 1999, Reich et al. 2001), and might be a good proxy of ecosystem functioning (Petchey et al. 2004), assessing the functional richness through the assessment of pre-defined functional groups can be problematic.”