Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward.

By Owen L. Petchey, Kevin J. Gaston. Ecology Letters, 2006

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

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Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services. (2006, background): “An important question when designing a biodiversity‐ ecosystem functioning experiment is what expression of diversity to manipulate: richness, evenness or functional groups?Theliteratureissomewhatdividedonthisissue(Di´az & Cabido 2001; Loreau et al. 2001; Hooper et al. 2005; Petchey & Gaston 2006; ”
A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity-productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands (2013, background): “…evidence that functionally 70 important aspects of biodiversity are better represented through the presence, abundance, 71 diversity and distribution of relevant plant functional attributes within species assemblages 72 (Díaz and Cabido, 2001; Petchey and Gaston, 2006; Reiss et al., 2009).”
Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa. (2009, methodology): “…functional diversity measure is possibly more important when linked to a particular ecosystem function, although FD has been shown to be a better predictor of ecosystem function than species richness or functional group richness in several grassland communities (Petchey et al. 2004).”
How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces (2015, methodology): “Among the different facets of biodiversity, functional diversity, i.e. the breadth of functions performed by species in an assemblage (Petchey & Gaston, 2006), is closely related to the rates of ecosystems processes (Mouillot et al., 2011; Naeem et al., 2012) and is shaped by environmental…”
Trait matching of flower visitors and crops predicts fruit set better than trait diversity (2015, background): “Trait richness, defined as the total branch length of a trait dendrogram, measures the extent of trait complementarity among species (Petchey & Gaston 2006).”
Functional diversity metrics using kernel density n-dimensional hypervolumes (2020, methodology): “For calculating FD, this package uses a functional tree in the sense of Petchey & Gaston (2002, 2006).”
Effects of grazing abandonment on functional and taxonomic diversity of Mediterranean grasslands (2012, background): “In contrast, functional diversity, which focuses on the functional traits of species in a community rather than taxonomic units, can be a more direct, mechanistic link to ecosystem processes than species richness (Díaz and Cabido, 2001; McIntyre and Lavorel, 2001; Petchey and Gaston, 2006).”
Functional diversity predicts overyielding effect of species combination on primary productivity (2009, background): “functional traits, and have been posited to directly explain variation in ecosystem functioning (Petchey and Gaston 2006).”
Assessing functional diversity in the field - methodology matters! (2007, background): “Functional diversity can be quantified using a variety of indices that capture different aspects of the distribution of trait values within a community (see recent reviews by Botta-Dukat 2005; Ricotta 2005; Petchey & Gaston 2006 ).”
Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges (2016, positive): “…diversity 1195 Functional diversity (FD) is an important component of biodiversity that considers the range of 1196 functions that organisms perform in communities and ecosystems (Purvis and Hector, 2000; Hooper 1197 et al., 2002; Petchey and Gaston, 2002, 2006; Pakeman, 2011; Mace et al., 2014).”
Metabolic Reconstruction for Metagenomic Data and Its Application to the Human Microbiome (2012, background): “Conversely, ecological functional diversity has been developed primarily in macroecology, specifically as applied to phenotypic traits [35,68].”