The concepts of ‘plant functional types’ and ‘functional diversity’ in lake phytoplankton – a new understanding of phytoplankton ecology?

By G. Weithoff. 2003

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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Linking traits to species diversity and community structure in phytoplankton (2010, background): “…ecology by Margalef, Reynolds, and Sommer (Margalef , 1978; Reynolds, 1984; Sommer, 1984; Reynolds, 1988; Sommer, 1988; Reynolds et al., 2002) and are now being further developed by many researchers (Rojo, 1998; Weithoff, 2003; Litchman et al., 2007; Litchman & Klausmeier, 2008; Kruk et al., 2010).”
Morpho-Functional Groups and phytoplankton development in two deep lakes (Lake Garda, Italy and Lake Stechlin, Germany) (2007, background): “…with the ability to regulate buoyancy, the requirement for specific resources (e.g., silica) and the ability to obtain alternative carbon and nutrient sources, represent strong selective factors that are able to select the best competitors under different environmental constraints (Weithoff, 2003).”
Moving from pattern to process: Coexistence mechanisms under intermediate disturbance regimes (2004, background): “…are adamant that species number is the only appropriate measure (Sommer 1995), other researchers have used measures of biodiversity other than species richness, for example, measures that incorporate abundance (Lubchenco 1978) or functional diversity measures (Willby et al. 2001; Weithoff 2003).”
A morphological classification capturing functional variation in phytoplankton (2010, background): “Unfortunately, the current paucity of information on species-specific physiological traits in the phytoplankton (Weithoff, 2003) limits our ability to arrive at a priori functional classifications (Reynolds et al.”
Phytoplankton community composition can be predicted best in terms of morphological groups (2011, background): “Morphology of phytoplankton appears closely linked to ecological functioning (Weithoff 2003; Naselli-Flores et al. 2007), as shown in relation to physiological traits and demographic features, as well as ecological performance (Margalef 1978; Reynolds 1984; Marañón 2008) and response to grazing…”
Functional classifications and their application in phytoplankton ecology (2015, background): “The criteria to define MFG were explicitly chosen as among the strongest drivers able to predict the best competitors under different environmental constraints (see Weithoff, 2003).”
Invited Review - Fight on Plankton! or, Phytoplankton Shape and Size as Adaptive Tools to Get Ahead in the Struggle for Life (2011, background): “…being increasingly used in phytoplankton ecology to explain and predict species distributions along environmental gradients (e.g. Reynolds et al., 2002; Weithoff, 2003; Litchman et al., 2007, 2010; Naselli-Flores et al., 2007a; Litchman & Klausmeier, 2008; Padisák et al., 2009; Kruk et al., 2010).”
Measures and Approaches in Trait-Based Phytoplankton Community Ecology – From Freshwater to Marine Ecosystems (2019, background): “…traits lends itself well to the estimation of functional diversity indicators (such as functional dispersion, richness, diversity and evenness; Weithoff, 2003; Villéger et al., 2008; Laliberté and Legendre, 2010) as well as community weighted means to characterize functional composition…”
Climate Change and the Future of Freshwater Biodiversity in Europe: A Primer for Policy-Makers (2009, background): “One possible resolution of these issues, therefore, is not to consider species or even genera or families of organisms at all but to think in terms of functional diversity (Wilson, 1999; Tilman, 2001; Petchey & Gaston, 2002, 2006; Weithoff, 2003; Hooper et al., 2005).”