Quantifying and interpreting functional diversity of natural communities: practical considerations matter

By J. Lepš, Francesco de Bello, S. Lavorel, S. Berman. 2006

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Leaf Traits as Functional Descriptors of the Intensity of Continuous Grazing in Native Grasslands in the South of Brazil (2010, methodology): “FD, measured as the divergence of leaf trait values between species, can be a better descriptor of ecosystem functioning than the number of functional groups (Lepš et al. 2006).”
Ecological assembly rules in plant communities—approaches, patterns and prospects (2012, background): “The study of limiting similarity is in fact analogous to the comparison of observed versus expected functional diversity, where high functional diversity is defined as high dissimilarity between species in the values of one or several traits (Petchey & Gaston, 2002; Leps et al., 2006).”
On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity (2009, methodology): “We then applied a PCoA using Lingoes (1971) transformation to render our distance matrix Euclidean.”
A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “Some are based on the sum of (functional attribute diversity: Walker et al. 1999) or average (quadratic entropy: Lepš et al. 2006) functional distances between species pairs in a multivariate functional trait space, distances between species along a hierarchical classification (FD: Petchey et al.…”
Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities? (2009, methodology): “coefficient modified by Leps et al. (2006). This coefficient captures interspecific”
Importance of species abundance for assessment of trait composition: an example based on pollinator communities (2007, methodology): “The trait average provides an indication of the most common traits in a community, while the FD indicates to what extent the species within a community are different in their traits (Lepš et al. 2006) and, thus for example, how the species share the niche space available (Mason et al.”
Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits (2010, background): “Although sometimes this component is also defined as ‘functional diversity’ (Hooper et al. 2005; Petchey and Gaston 2006; Lepš et al. 2006) it should not be confounded with the concept of functional diversity as defined by Dı́az and Cabido (2001) and Dı́az et al. (2007), which includes more…”
Plant functional traits in studies of vegetation changes in response to grazing and mowing: towards a use of more specific traits (2008, methodology): “For this the approach of McGill et al. (2006) could be used to prioritize the factors (in our case traits) in order to ascertain which traits are the best predictors of long-term success in a given system (see also Lepš et al. 2006).”
How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale‐up to trade‐offs and synergies in ecosystem services (2012, background): “The effects of functional divergence; the expected variance in trait values across two random samples of equal biomass within a community (Lepš et al. 2006), have been harder to demonstrate (Dı́az et al. 2007a; Mokany, Ash & Roxburgh 2008; Laughlin 2011; but see Schumacher & Roscher 2009), and…”