Single‐trait functional indices outperform multi‐trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape

By Bradley J. Butterfield, K. Suding. 2013

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

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A trait-based experimental approach to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships (2014, background): “In addition, it has been shown that functional diversity indices based on multiple traits may fail as predictors for ecosystem processes because different traits are associated with different niche axes (Butterfield & Suding, 2013).”
An experimental framework to identify community functional components driving ecosystem processes and services delivery (2013, background): “…variation of distinct ecosystem processes and services, such as primary productivity and decomposition (Mouillot et al. 2011), carbon sequestration (Butterfield & Suding 2013; Conti & Díaz 2013) and fodder production (Butterfield & Suding 2013), as well as ecosystem multifunctionality (i.e. mean…”
Moving beyond the guild concept: developing a practical functional trait framework for terrestrial beetles (2015, background): “Furthermore, using different trait sets may lead to different conclusions about community assembly (Pillar et al., 2009) and different ecosystem service predictions (Butterfield & Suding, 2013).”
Abiotic and biotic drivers of biomass change in a Neotropical forest (2017, background): “Variation in plant traits positively affected productivity in grasslands (Tilman et al. 1997) and temperate forests (Butterfield & Suding 2013), but its effect may be different for diverse tropical forests where trait redundancy between species may not further enhance forest growth (Walker 1992).”
Community assembly by limiting similarity vs. competitive hierarchies: testing the consequences of dispersion of individual traits (2014, result): “Consistent with this argument, several recent studies have shown clearer patterns of trait structure along environmental gradients using analyses of single functional traits than multitrait indices (Spasojevic & Suding 2012; Butterfield & Suding 2013).”
Plant functional effects on ecosystem services (2013, background): “In this Special Feature, some non-negligible FD effects were also retained in the models of ecosystem services (Butterfield & Suding 2013; Conti & Díaz 2013; Grigulis et al. 2013), although their mechanistic explanation is more speculative.”
Land-use effects on the functional distinctness of arthropod communities (2015, background): “However, we justify this by the fact that we did not aim at predicting changes in a single ecosystem function in response to land-use differences (Butterfield and Suding 2013), but that the combination of a large amount of trait information in our study provides a robust measure of the overall funct”
Linking the impacts of plant invasion on community functional structure and ecosystem properties (2016, background): “For instance, CWM of leaf, wood, root or whole-plant traits, have been found to correlate to primary production, litter decomposition or soil C and N contents, respectively (Garnier et al. 2004; Butterfield & Suding 2013; Finegan et al. 2015).”