How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces

By E. Maire, G. Grenouillet, S. Brosse, Sébastien Villéger. 2015

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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An attribute‐diversity approach to functional diversity, functional beta diversity, and related (dis)similarity measures (2019, background): “However, it has been shown that different clustering methods may lead to different conclusions (Mouchet et al. 2008) and, more recently, that even the best dendrogram is often of very low quality (Maire et al. 2015).”
Functional richness: Overview of indices and underlying concepts (2018, methodology): “FDP&G is based on functional dendrograms, i.e. trees where species are the tips and the length of branches between them reflects the functional dissimilarities between species (Petchey & Gaston 2002, Maire et al. 2015).”
Structural complexity mediates functional structure of reef fish assemblages among coral habitats (2017, methodology): “The first four dimensions of the ordination were selected a posteriori (following Maire et al. 2015), and single score functional diversity indices were calculated according to species' position in this four-dimensional space.”
The shape of success in a turbulent world: wave exposure filtering of coral reef herbivory (2017, methodology): “Functional indices were computed using the MultidimFD function (Vill eger, Mason & Mouillot 2008; Mouillot et al. 2013; Maire et al. 2015).”
Measuring temporal change in alpha diversity: A framework integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity and the iNEXT.3D standardization (2021, background): “To date, a typical approach has been to quantify each dimension (taxonomic (TD), functional (FD), phylogenetic (PD)) of diversity independently (see for example, Maire et al., 2015; Tucker et al., 2017; Villéger et al., 2017).”