Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

By David Mouillot, Sébastien Villéger, V. Parravicini, Michel Kulbicki, J. Arias‐González, M. Bender, P. Chabanet, S. R. Floeter, A. Friedlander, Laurent Vigliola and 1 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Historic and prehistoric human‐driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns (2015, result): “For both current and natural diversities, the gradient is substantially shallower in functional diversity than in the other diversity measures, corresponding to studies from other taxa (Mouillot et al., 2014).”
Functional diversity: a review of methodology and current knowledge in freshwater macroinvertebrate research (2016, background): “By examining fish faunas of tropical reefs, Mouillot et al. (2014) observed high functional redundancy combined with high functional vulnerability: some unique combinations of functional traits were represented by a single species.”
Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales. (2016, background): “Moreover, redundancy can be estimated at specific areas of the functional trait space to detect trait combinations that are over- (several species occupying that portion of the space; over-redundancy [92]) or underrepresented (Figure I).”
The meaning of the term ‘function’ in ecology: A coral reef perspective (2018, background): “…group of any reef 111 organisms, and frequently examined from a ‘functional’ perspective (Figure 1), the spectrum 112 of studies invoking function has virtually no common denominator (cf. Wainwright 1988; 113 Bellwood & Choat 1990; Houk et al. 2014; Mouillot et al. 2014; Floeter et al. 2018).”
GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2017, unknown): “, 2014) and even global spatial scales (e.g. Swenson et al., 2012; van Bodegom et al., 2014; Mouillot et al., 2014).”
Reconstructing hyperdiverse food webs: Gut content metabarcoding as a tool to disentangle trophic interactions on coral reefs (2019, background): “For example, reef fish species are often assigned to trophic categories such as ‘mesopredators’ and ‘mobile herbivores’ when assessing trophic interactions (e.g. Casey et al., 2016; Mouillot et al., 2014).”
Habitat degradation increases functional originality in highly diverse coral reef fish assemblages (2016, methodology): “…assemblages to habitat degradation is rooted in the nature of coral reef systems, where the characteristic habitat type (live coral) provides enough niche space for the coexistence of a highly diverse, but functionally unbalanced assemblage of organisms (Mouillot et al. 2014, Bellwood et al. 2016).”