Assessing functional diversity in marine benthic ecosystems: a comparison of approaches

By Julie Bremner, S. Rogers, C. Frid. 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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The functional roles of marine sponges (2008, background): “Furthermore, care must be taken when including sponges in functional assessments of marine communities since classifying them on the basis of trophic level (e.g. trophic group analysis see Bremner et al., 2003) clearly under-represents the important role they play.”
Beta diversity and taxonomic sufficiency: Do higher‐level taxa reflect heterogeneity in species composition? (2009, background): “…quite similar in their functional characteristics (e.g. feeding habits, life cycles), and such homogeneity can also occur at a higher level (e.g. Monoplacophora), suggesting that the taxonomic level of diversity in functional attributes may vary even within the same phylum (Bremner et al., 2003).”
Coastal habitats and their importance for the diversity of benthic communities: A species- and trait-based approach (2019, positive): “…trait approach is better suited to explain ecosystem functioning, since it is not species identity per se but species characteristics that dictate their interactions, responses and ecological role within food webs and ecosystems (Dıáz and Cabido, 2001; Bremner et al., 2003; Gagic et al., 2015).”
Marine benthic ecological functioning over decreasing taxonomic richness (2015, background): “more inclusive analysis of the functional properties since a multitude of traits are used (Bremner et al., 2003).”
How functional is functional? Ecological groupings in terrestrial animal ecology: towards an animal functional type approach (2011, background): “Functional groups, used in 19% of the animal ecological studies (31% in plant ecology) and are mostly restricted to aquatic systems (Johnson et al. 2003; Bremner et al. 2003; Dumay et al. 2004).”
Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity (2005, background): “This link has been hypothesised for communities of microbes (Griffiths et al. 1997), plants (Tilman et al. 1997, Lavorel and Garnier 2002, Petchey et al. 2004) and animals (Pearson 2001, Bremner et al. 2003).”
Zoobenthic diversity-gradients in the Baltic Sea: Continuous post-glacial succession in a stressed ecosystem (2006, background): “This phenomenon can also be viewed as a bottle-neck for species invasions at large, as the system along the steep environmental gradient may be saturated with species occupying the potential niches and/or functions in a benthic flow-system (Bonsdorff and Pearson, 1999; Stachowicz et al., 1999; Jumar”
A user's guide to functional diversity indices (2010, methodology): “, diet affinities, food acquisition methods, preferred habitat) and the observed species are assigned to different functional categories (Bremner et al. 2003, Stevens et al. 2003, Petchey and Gaston 2006). These data can be further processed with conventional species diversity indices (Functional Gr”
Habitat variation, species diversity and ecological functioning in a marine system (2008, methodology): “High evenness within functions at the relatively coarse-scale description of ecosystem functions used in this and many other studies (Bremner et al., 2003; Bell, 2007; Mouillot et al., 2007; Schratzberger et al., 2007), also reflects the potential for the maintenance of function with the loss of…”