A functional guide to functional diversity measures

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Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach (2011, background): “However, a critical step in the measurement of trait diversity is the choice of a subset of traits and the measurement of the trait values for a wide range of species (Petchey et al., 2009).”
Measuring nutritional diversity of national food supplies (2014, background): “The use of functional diversity metrics has grown in ecology to measure the diversity of functional traits in a given area (Petchey et al., 2009; Schleuter et al., 2010; Weiher, 2012).”
Functional diversity changes during tropical forest succession (2012, background): “Functional diversity has received ample theoretical attention e.g. Díaz and Cabido, 2001; Tilman, 2001b; Ackerly and Cornwell, 007; Díaz et al., 2007a,b; Hillebrand and Matthiessen, 2009; etchey et al., 2010), and has become the central paradigm of the illennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA, 2005).”