Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

Realistic losses of rare species disproportionately impact higher trophic levels

(2012) Matthew E. S. Bracken et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Rare species drive local trait diversity in two geographically disjunct examples of a naturally rare alpine ecosystem in New Zealand

(2012) Sarah J. Richardson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction

(2012) S. Naeem et al.   SCIENCE

Diversity–function relationships changed in a long-term restoration experiment

(2011) James M. Doherty et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

(2011) Paulo M. Brando et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional diversity and species turnover of benthic invertebrates along a local environmental gradient induced by an aquaculture unit: the contribution of species dispersal ability and rarity

(2011) Charalampos Dimitriadis et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

The new diversity: management gains through insights into the functional diversity of communities

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Niche breadth, rarity and ecological characteristics within a regional flora spanning large environmental gradients

(2011) Isabelle Boulangeat et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Consequences of climate change on the tree of life in Europe

(2011) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   NATURE

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2011) David Mouillot et al.   PLoS One

Global Patterns of Guild Composition and Functional Diversity of Spiders

(2011) Pedro Cardoso et al.   PLoS One

Human activity selectively impacts the ecosystem roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs

(2011) D. R. Bellwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities

(2010) Sébastien Lavergne et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Loss of functional diversity of ant assemblages in secondary tropical forests

(2010) Jochen H. Bihn et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conservation Status of Imperiled North American Freshwater and Diadromous Fishes

(2010) Howard L. Jelks et al.   FISHERIES

Functional diversity of herbaceous species under different fire frequencies in Brazilian savannas

(2010) Priscilla de Paula Loiola et al.   FLORA

Dominance and compensatory growth in phytoplankton communities under salinity stress

(2010) Sabine Flöder et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Ecosystem Responses to Community Disassembly

(2009) Erika Zavaleta et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Patterns and mechanisms responsible for the relationship between the diversity of litter macro-invertebrates and leaf degradation

(2009) Mickaël Hedde et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Defining and measuring ecological specialization

(2009) Vincent Devictor et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size

(2009) Len Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS INCREASE THE IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR OVERALL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING

(2008) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   ECOLOGY

Unexpectedly high 20th century floristic losses in a rural landscape in northern France

(2008) H. Van Calster et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional diversity responses to changing species richness in reef fish communities

(2008) BS Halpern et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Towards a consensus for calculating dendrogram-based functional diversity indices

(2008) Maud Mouchet et al.   OIKOS

Caribbean Reef Development Was Independent of Coral Diversity over 28 Million Years

(2008) K. G. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Commonness, population depletion and conservation biology

(2007) K GASTON et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION