Patterns of functional diversity across an extensive environmental gradient: vertebrate consumers, hidden treatments and latitudinal trends

By R. Stevens, S. Cox, R. Strauss, M. Willig. 2003

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Combined effects of habitat modification on trait composition and species nestedness in river invertebrates (2010, background): “Functional diversity in an assemblage is normally expected to be a function of species richness, although the shape of this function varies between systems, and in rivers is still unclear (Stevens et al., 2003; Bêche and Resh, 2007).”
Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis (2008, background): “, 2006a), or in the numbers or proportions of different functional or behavioural groups (e.g. Newton & Dale, 1996; Stevens et al., 2003; Heino, 2005; Micheli & Halpern, 2005).”
Functional trait niches of North American lotic insects: traits-based ecological applications in light of phylogenetic relationships (2006, background): “…and taxonomic diversity (e.g., Dı́az and Cabido 2001, Petchy and Gaston 2002, Mouillot et al. 2005) or ecosystem function (e.g., Naeem and Wright 2003, Petchey et al. 2004) in biotic communities, and how these relationships may change along environmental gradients (Heino 2005, Stevens et al. 2003).”
Dendrograms and measuring functional diversity (2007, background): “Podani and Schmera (2006) observe that ‘ ... total branch length of trees if used as a measure of FD does not satisfy the set monotonicity property ( Ricotta 2005 ) ... ’ This is incorrect: it is not the use of”
Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “Attempts to answer these questions have led to debates that polarized the field (Wardle, 2002), and a growing consensus that species numbers alone do not inform us about all important aspects of ecosystem functioning and community responses to environmental change (Chapin et al., 2000; Dı́az and Cab”
Ecology Drives the Worldwide Distribution of Human Diseases (2004, background): “This pattern, known as the latitudinal species diversity gradient, has been documented for many contemporary taxonomic groups (see Brown 1995; Rosenzweig 1995; Gaston and Blackburn 2000; Allen et al. 2002; Stevens et al. 2003).”
Can stable isotope ratios provide for community-wide measures of trophic structure? (2007, methodology): “We discuss a general framework for applying the community-wide metrics, but this is only a foundation from which a variety of statistical approaches (e.g., incorporation of null models as in Cornwell et al. 2006) can be developed to provide for rigorous tests of ecological patterns and theory.”
Biotic homogenization: Loss of avian functional richness and habitat specialists in disturbed Andean temperate forests (2015, background): “Many studies of functional diversity use species presence/absence rather than number of individuals as the unit of analysis, disregarding differences in density among species (Flynn et al., 2009; Stevens et al., 2003).”
Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. (2006, background): “For example, when plants are classified into C4 grasses, C3 grasses, N-fixing legumes, and non-N-fixing herbaceous species (Gitay & Noble 1997), the only possible measure of functional diversity is the number of groups present (or that combined with evenness, Stevens et al. 2003).”