Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap?

By Francesco de Bello, C. P. Carmona, N. Mason, M. Sebastiá, J. Lepš. 2013

110 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/de6ba9d3021403bc608f299b06fc36c3948ee39d

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In Ecological Modeling

1. Francesco de Bello
2. J. Lepš
3. N. Mason
4. C. P. Carmona
5. S. Lavorel
6. Z. Botta‐Dukát
7. Bálint Czúcz
8. T. Herben

In Ecology

1. Francesco de Bello
2. J. Lepš
3. N. Mason
4. C. P. Carmona
5. S. Lavorel
6. Bálint Czúcz
7. J. Diniz-Filho
8. Z. Botta‐Dukát

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Francesco de Bello
2. J. Lepš
3. N. Mason
4. S. Lavorel
5. C. P. Carmona
6. Wilfried Thuiller
7. Bálint Czúcz
8. Z. Botta‐Dukát

Citations in the corpus

• Evidence for scale‐ and disturbance‐dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi‐natural grasslands (2013, background): “Measuring trait overlap allows a more reliable estimation of species dissimilarities than using only species trait means, particularly when extracted from existing databases, to detect both patterns of divergence and convergence (de Bello et al. 2013).”
• Testing the ability of functional diversity indices to detect trait convergence and divergence using individual‐based simulation (2016, background): “We focused on indices calculated from distance matrices, as these are also applicable in phylogenetic studies, and offer a relatively straightforward way for incorporating intraspecific trait variation (De Bello et al. 2013a).”
• Decoupling phylogenetic and functional diversity to reveal hidden signals in community assembly (2017, background): “Different types of distance measures can be used for both continuous and categorical traits to calculate standardized distances between species in multidimensional trait space (Laliberte & Legendre 2010; de Bello et al. 2013; Carmona et al. 2016).”
• Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales. (2016, methodology): “However, not all the combinations of traits confer equal fitness [36], which implies that trait values within a species [50], community [53], region [54], or even at the global scale [55] are not equally represented across the whole range of possible values (Box 1).”