Dendrograms and measuring functional diversity

By Owen L. Petchey, Kevin J. Gaston. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A user's guide to functional diversity indices (2010, methodology): “There has been discussion in the literature on which distance measure and cluster method is best to calculate this index (Podani and Schmera 2006, Petchey and Gaston 2007, Podani and Schmera 2007, Mouchet et al. 2008).”
Indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem services: a synthesis across ecosystems and spatial scales (2009, background): “Another approach gaining increasing interest for the indication of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across habitats and spatial scales is the use of functional traits (Bady et al. 2005, Statzner et al. 2005, de Bello et al. 2006, Petchey and Gaston 2007).”
Little evidence for limiting similarity in a long‐term study of a roadside plant community (2010, methodology): “Here, the dispersion of species in trait space is compared using measures of the functional diversity (FD) of communities (Petchey & Gaston 2007).”
Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach (2011, background): “This property which is rooted in the use of species richness as a measure of ecological diversity is considered by many as an absolute requirement for an appropriate index of diversity (e.g. Izsak & Papp, 2000; Ricotta, 2006; Petchey & Gaston, 2007).”
Functional diversity: a review of methodology and current knowledge in freshwater macroinvertebrate research (2016, background): “…the original idea provoked intensive debate on how dendrograms should be used for quantifying functional diversity (Podani & Schmera, 2006, 2007; Petchey & Gaston, 2007, 2009), several papers have used them for quantifying functional diversity of freshwater assemblages (Vidakovic & Palijan,…”
Quantifying Functional Biodiversity (2011, methodology): “To calculate FD in each sample of the community, this version of FD sums the lengths of the branches on the dendrogram needed to connect the present species, no including the length of the branch to get to the root (Petchey and Gaston 2007).”
Diversidades filogenética e funcional: novas abordagens para a Ecologia de comunidades (2009, background): “Para isso, a capacidade de previsão das teorias ecológicas tem de melhorar consideravelmente (Peters 1991).”
Using functional traits to predict grassland ecosystem change: a mathematical test of the response‐and‐effect trait approach (2009, background): “Effects of functional trait distributions, can thus be related to a niche complementarity effect (Petchey & Gaston, 2006), suggesting functional diversity as the driving factor of productivity (Diaz et al., 2007b).”
On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity (2009, background): “Podani and Schmera (2006) suggested the use of the average link (UPGMA) for Gower’s distance (but see Petchey and Gaston 2007 for a critical comment).”
From Animalcules to an Ecosystem: Application of Ecological Concepts to the Human Microbiome (2012, methodology): “…describing alpha diversity patterns using metrics that incorporate phylogenetic (Faith & Baker 2006) and functional or trait-based information (Petchey & Gaston 2007), we focus here on the taxonomic diversity of human-associated microbial communities as this is the alpha diversity metric most…”
Linking traits to species diversity and community structure in phytoplankton (2010, methodology): “Functional diversity is calculated by measuring the total branch lengths connecting all species to each other in a dendrogram (Petchey & Gaston, 2007); the dendrogram is produced from a matrix of species and traits.”