Moving beyond the guild concept: developing a practical functional trait framework for terrestrial beetles

By Nick Fountain-Jones, Susan C. Baker, Gregory J. Jordan. 2015

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1. New logical and analytical frameworks for studying functional traits have led to major advances in plant and freshwater ecology at local and global scales. The ecological and taxonomic diversity of terrestrial adult beetles (Coleoptera) means that functional trait approaches should have considerable power to illuminate the function not only of these animals but also of the ecosystems in which they occur.

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

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