What does species richness tell us about functional trait diversity? Predictions and evidence for responses of species and functional trait diversity to land-use change

By M. Mayfield, S. Bonser, J. Morgan, I. Aubin, Sean McNamara, Peter Vesk. 2010

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

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Citations in the corpus

Evaluation of functional trait diversity for marine zooplankton communities in the Northeast subarctic Pacific Ocean (2015, background): “Mayfield et al. (Mayfield et al., 2010) suggested that S and FRic are fundamentally linked based on the selection effect, where a large species pool size increases the likelihood of capturing the range of functional trait values in that pool of species.”
Effects of disturbance intensity on species and functional diversity in a tropical forest (2012, background): “…no effect of logging on taxonomic diversity (S, Fishers’ a) was reported 16 years after a low-tomoderate logging intensity (2–9 m2 ha 1) of trees >15 cm d.b.h. in a Bornean rainforest (Verburg & van Eijk-Bos 2003), and 50 years after logging disturbance in a semi-arid forest (Mayfield et al. 2010).”
Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales. (2016, background): “High levels of redundancy imply that loss of a single species should not affect the functionality of the assemblage because other species with similar traits remain [86,87].”
Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity? (2014, background): “This type of information is not obtained when measuring only species diversity and composition, which are traditionally used to assess recovery in the restoration studies (Mayfield et al., 2010; Mouchet et al., 2010; Mouillot et al., 2013).”
Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change (2013, background): “In the current context of global change (Sala et al., 2000), predicting the future trajectories of response diversity in real ecosystems is extremely challenging (Mayfield et al., 2010).”
Trait‐related responses to habitat fragmentation in Amazonian bats (2015, background): “Furthermore, examining how species traits vary across environmental gradients can help to elucidate how landuse changes shape the diversity and composition of assemblages and advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying species–environment relationships (McGill et al. 2006; Mayfield et al.”
Effects of human‐modified landscapes on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic dimensions of bat biodiversity (2015, background): “More importantly, it is critical to recognize that the number and abundance of species (TD) is an outcome of community assembly processes (Mayfield et al., 2010) that operate on species characteristics.”
Effects of grazing abandonment on functional and taxonomic diversity of Mediterranean grasslands (2012, methodology): “Given that species richness did not vary, this trend in DSF suggests that at least in these two traits, abandonment involves the loss of functionally different species with potential consequences for ecosystem services (Mayfield et al., 2010).”