On the importance of intraspecific variability for the quantification of functional diversity

By Cécile H. Albert, Francesco de Bello, Isabelle Boulangeat, Gilles Pellet, S. Lavorel, Wilfried Thuiller. 2012

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

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Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities (2012, background): “Integrating trait measures at a community level in species- rich systems may also be difficult because intraspecific varia- tion in trait values can be substantial (Baraloto et al. 2010a; Albert et al. 2012).”
New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, background): “Species may therefore vary in which quantitative traits are stable across given gradients, so tests should be made before a trait is taken to be stable for a given species (Albert et al. 2010, 2012; Hulshof and Swenson 2010; Messier et al. 2010; Moreira et al. 2012).”
Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape (2015, background): “…shift towards quantifying patterns of intra-specific trait variation, which have been shown to account for a large portion of community-wide trait diversity patterns (Albert et al. 2010, 2012; Jung et al. 2010, 2014; de Bello et al. 2011; Violle et al. 2012; Boucher et al. 2013; Sides et al. 2014).”
Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events (2014, background): “This would fit within a recent theoretical framework proposing a spatial scale-dependence of the importance of intra- vs. interspecific trait variability (Albert et al. 2012).”
Single‐trait functional indices outperform multi‐trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape (2013, background): “Model fits in the present study were not particularly high, which may be attributed to the lack of information on intraspecific trait variation (Albert et al. 2012), as well as the relatively low functional variation in the local flora.”
Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on‐site measurements? (2013, background): “This has already been shown for the site scale (Baraloto et al. 2010; Hulshof & Swenson 2010; Messier, McGill & Lechowicz 2010; Albert et al. 2012) and as our results show is potentiated when traits are retrieved from a database.”
Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices (2015, background): “Several new avenues have been proposed to better quantify functional diversity and increase 417 the predictive power of biodiversity-functioning relationships: taking into account single and multi418 trait indices simultaneously, phylogenetic diversity [56], within-species trait variability [57], ab”
Functional richness: Overview of indices and underlying concepts (2018, background): “In fact, an increasing number of studies have demonstrated that the ITV should not be neglected in the assessment of different aspects of functional diversity (Violle et al. 2007, Albert et al. 2012, Laughlin et al. 2015, Gonzales-Suarez 2015).”
Difficult decisions: Strategies for conservation prioritization when taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity are not spatially congruent (2018, background): “Trait-based conservation is further complicated by the fact that within-species trait variation can be substantial (Albert et al., 2012) and this variability should potentially be incorporated.”
Spatial scale and intraspecific trait variability mediate assembly rules in alpine grasslands (2017, background): “However, recent works question this assumption and show that ITV can significantly affect patterns of community functional diversity (Albert et al. 2010, 2012; Siefert 2012).”