Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity

By N. Mason, David Mouillot, William G. Lee, J. Wilson. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils (2010, background): “There is a continuum of approaches along this spectrum, ranging from species richness and evenness, to functional group richness or evenness, to trait-based multivariate indices of functional diversity (e.g. Tilman et al., 1997a,b; Mason et al., 2006; Wright et al., 2006; Lavorel et al., 2008).”
Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach (2011, background): “Trait diversity indices have recently focused on three aspects: trait richness, trait ‘‘evenness’’ and trait divergence (Mason et al., 2005).”
Avian pest control in vineyards is driven by interactions between bird functional diversity and landscape heterogeneity (2017, background): “…of functional diversity metrics requires that species abundance is accounted for, multiple traits are considered simultaneously (including both continuous and categorical traits) and all facets of functional diversity are measured (Mason et al. 2005; Lalibert"e, Legendre & Shipley 2015).”
Evaluation of leaf features in forest trees: Methods, techniques, obtainable information and limits (2015, background): “The distribution of values of a specific trait within a community can be expressed via various metrics (Mason et al., 2005).”
Land use impacts on biodiversity in LCA: proposal of characterization factors based on functional diversity (2013, background): “Univariate measures based on the abundance-weighted range of each trait have also been developed (Mason et al. 2003, 2005) after estimating the within study and between study variance.”
Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap? (2013, background): “Functional diversity, the extent of trait differences between species, is a key component of biodiversity (Petchey & Gaston 2002; Mason et al. 2005).”
Does biodiversity make a difference? Relationships between species richness, evolutionary diversity, and aboveground live tree biomass across U.S. forests. (2014, background): “…space filled by species in the community), functional evenness (the evenness of abundance distribution in filled niche space) and functional divergence (the degree to which the distribution in niche space maximizes divergence in functional characteristics within the community) (Mason et al., 2005).”
Evaluation of functional trait diversity for marine zooplankton communities in the Northeast subarctic Pacific Ocean (2015, background): “FRic is an indicator of how much of potential niche space is occupied by the species present in a given community, providing information that can be related to productivity and environmental variability (Mason et al., 2005; Schleuter et al., 2010).”