Functional diversity (FD), species richness and community composition

By Owen L. Petchey, Kevin J. Gaston. 2002

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

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New multidimensional functional diversity indices for a multifaceted framework in functional ecology. (2008, background): “4) While indices based on sum of lengths on hierarchical classifications do not take account of abundances, they may deal with many traits simultaneously and are not trivially related to species richness (e.g., the FD index of Petchey and Gaston 2002).”
Morphological patterns and community organization in leaf-litter ant assemblages (2010, background): “In particular, functional diversity, the extent of functional differences among the species in a community, is now emerging as an aspect of crucial importance to understanding ecosystem and community functioning (Dı́as and Cabido 2001, Petchey and Gaston 2002, 2006, Mouillot et al. 2005).”
A trait-based experimental approach to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships (2014, background): “This idea has been established already early in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research (Tilman, 1999; Loreau, 2000; Petchey & Gaston, 2002).”
Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices (2015, methodology): “For the two functional richness measures (FRx) we first calculated a measure based on 240 dendrograms (FRdendr, [8]).”
Mapping functional diversity using individual tree-based morphological and physiological traits in a subtropical forest (2021, methodology): “taxonomy-independent continuous multi-trait approaches using variance- or distance-based metrics (Laliberté and Legendre, 2010; Petchey and Gaston, 2002; Swenson et al., 2012; Villéger et al., 2008; Violle et al., 2014; Walker, 1992).”
Species diversity, functional complexity and rarity in Arctic fjordic versus open shelf benthic systems (2012, background): “Functional diversity is based on understanding what organisms do in ecosystems rather than on evolutionary history as reflected in taxonomic relationships, and is proposed as a better determinant of the ecosystem processes than the traditional measures of species diversity (Petchey & Gaston 2002).”
Species traits as drivers of food web structure (2018, background): “The diversity of traits, which can be quantified by a variety of metrics (Rao 1982, Petchey and Gaston 2002, Villéger et al.”
Acoustic indices for biodiversity assessments: Analyses of bias based on simulated bird assemblages and recommendations for field surveys (2015, positive): “The existence of such a threshold in the relationship between functional diversity and species richness has long been recognized (e.g., Petchey and Gaston, 2002); thus, acoustic diversity indices are likely to be proxies for species richness below that threshold.”
A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits. (2010, background): “This has led to the development of several indices for measuring FD (e.g., Petchey and Gaston 2002, Botta-Dukát 2005).”
Measuring diversity: the importance of species similarity. (2012, background): “Some diversity indices depend only on species similarity, ignoring abundance (Faith 1992, Solow and Polasky 1994, Izsák and Papp 2000, Petchey and Gaston 2002).”
Biodiversity, ecosystem function and plant traits in mature and immature plant communities (2005, methodology): “For each quadrat, FD was calculated according to a published protocol (Petchey & Gaston 2002; Petchey et al. 2004).”
The relationship between species richness and taxonomic distinctness in freshwater organisms (2005, background): “…only the number of different units of organism present, it explains little about the phylogenetic (e.g., Faith 1992) or functional diversity (e.g., Petchey and Gaston 2002) of communities, measures that are highly influential if species’ relatedness and ecosystem functioning are of prime interest…”
Single‐trait functional indices outperform multi‐trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape (2013, methodology): “Indices that mix richness and evenness, such as Rao’s Q (Botta-Dukat 2005) and dendrogram-based indices (Petchey & Gaston 2002), have also been used extensively, exhibiting both effects on ecosystem processes (Díaz et al. 2007; Klumpp & Soussana 2009; Lavorel et al. 2011) as well as responses to…”