Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

By Francesco de Bello, S. Lavorel, Cécile H. Albert, Wilfried Thuiller, K. Grigulis, J. Doležal, Štěpán Janěcek, J. Lepš. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. (2015, unknown): “For each community i and each functional trait within a given study, we calculated the abundance-weighted interspecific and intraspecific trait variance, which sum to the total within-1012 community trait variance (de Bello et al. 2011).”
Functional leaf traits of vascular epiphytes: vertical trends within the forest, intra‐ and interspecific trait variability, and taxonomic signals (2016, background): “However, recent studies have also highlighted that intraspecific trait variability can be quite substantial and that individuals within species can adjust their traits in response to the environment (Bolnick et al. 2011; De Bello et al. 2011; Kichenin et al. 2013).”
A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients (2013, background): “As demonstrated by de Bello et al. (2011), Albert et al. (2012), Laliberte & Legendre (2010) and de Bello et al. (2012), calculating functional diversity for multiple traits can introduce a variety of complications, and necessitates complex methodological decisions.”
Selecting traits that explain species–environment relationships: a generalized linear mixed model approach (2013, unknown): “Intra-species variability can be considerable (e.g. Albert et al. 2011, de Bello et al 2011) but we do not consider it in this paper.”
New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, background): “…of the sensitivity of their trait values to the environmental factor of interest, and their importance locally and regionally, as well as for the ease with which they can be found and identified in the field (independent of their relative abundance) (Ansquer et al. 2009; De Bello et al. 2011).”
Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape (2015, background): “…shift towards quantifying patterns of intra-specific trait variation, which have been shown to account for a large portion of community-wide trait diversity patterns (Albert et al. 2010, 2012; Jung et al. 2010, 2014; de Bello et al. 2011; Violle et al. 2012; Boucher et al. 2013; Sides et al. 2014).”
Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow (2014, unknown): “Additionally, Rao’s index of quadratic entropy (FDrao) has been widely used to indicate functional divergence of traits as it includes variance and functional dispersion and is strongly correlated with FDiv (Leps et al., 2006; De Bello et al., 2011).”
Branching out: Towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology (2015, background): “Methods have been proposed to incorporate intraspecific variability when measuring functional diversity (de Bello et al., 2011) and community ecology studies incorporate intraspecific variability to better understand community assembly (e.g. Jung et al., 2010).”