A measure for assessing functional diversity in ecological communities

By Dénes Schmera, T. Erős, János Podani. Aquatic Ecology, 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Functional diversity: a review of methodology and current knowledge in freshwater macroinvertebrate research (2016, methodology): “…studying functional attribute diversity (FAD) measured through the sum of pairwise dissimilarities of traits among taxa (Walker et al., 1999), Schmera et al. (2009a) recognized that the measure was extremely sensitive to the number of species and increased upon addition of a new species if…”
Measuring nutritional diversity of national food supplies (2014, methodology): “It is given as (Schmera et al., 2009): MFAD¼ ∑ni ¼ 1∑ n j ¼ 1dij N where n is the number of species – or food items, in this case – and d is the dissimilarity between species i and j as defined by multiple traits – or nutritional components – measured using some distance algorithm, such as…”
Correlations between phylogenetic and functional diversity: mathematical artefacts or true ecological and evolutionary processes? (2013, background): “…are very similar: FAD (Walker et al. 1999), which is the sum of pair-wise functional or phylogenetic distances between species; MFAD = FAD/(S 1) (Schmera et al. 2009), where S is the number of species; meanD, which is the mean of pair-wise functional or phylogenetic distances between species…”
Quantifying Functional Biodiversity (2011, background): “Posed questions focus on the relative contribution of abundance upon the functional diversity components, like the functional richness, the functional evenness and the functional divergence (Schmera et al. 2009; Poos et al. 2009; Mouchet et al. 2010).”
Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach (2011, background): “For instance, the MFAD index (Table 1) developed in a functional context as the sum of pairwise trait distances among species divided by the number of species (Schmera et al., 2009), could be adapted for use with phylogenetic distances among species.”