Concepts and applications in functional diversity

Including intraspecific trait variability to avoid distortion of functional diversity and ecological inference: Lessons from natural assemblages

(2021) Mark K. L. Wong et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Habitat differences filter functional diversity of low dispersive microscopic animals (Acari, Halacaridae)

(2021) Alejandro Martínez et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Erosion of global functional diversity across the tree of life

(2021) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   Science Advances

The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces

(2021) David Mouillot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

From alpha to beta functional and phylogenetic redundancy

(2020) Carlo Ricotta et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

hyperoverlap : Detecting biological overlap in n ‐dimensional space

(2020) Matilda J. M. Brown et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Contrasting functional structure of saproxylic beetle assemblages associated to different microhabitats

(2020) Estefanía Micó et al.   Scientific Reports

The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity

(2020) Daniel Sol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Estimation of colour volumes as concave hypervolumes using α‐shapes

(2020) Hugo Gruson   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Functional diversity metrics using kernel density n ‐dimensional hypervolumes

(2020) Stefano Mammola et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

adiv: An r package to analyse biodiversity in ecology

(2020) Sandrine Pavoine   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Shifting spaces: Which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces?

(2020) Thomas Guillerme et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Decomposing the Causes for Niche Differentiation Between Species Using Hypervolumes

(2020) José Carlos Carvalho et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The costs of ignoring species detectability on functional diversity estimation

(2020) Facundo Xavier Palacio et al.   AUK

Are redundancy indices redundant? An evaluation based on parameterized simulations

(2020) Thomas Galland et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Handling missing values in trait data

(2020) Thomas F. Johnson et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species

(2020) Francesco Bello et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology

(2019) Jiangshan Lai et al.   Ecosphere

Conservation prioritization based on trait‐based metrics illustrated with global parrot distributions

(2019) Evsey Kosman et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Projected losses of global mammal and bird ecological strategies

(2019) Robert S. C. Cooke et al.   Nature Communications

Assessing similarity of n‐ dimensional hypervolumes: Which metric to use?

(2019) Stefano Mammola   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Common latitudinal gradients in functional richness and functional evenness across marine and terrestrial systems

(2019) M. Schumm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Assessing functional diversity: the influence of the number of the functional traits

(2019) Gaëlle Legras et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Functional Diversity: An Epistemic Roadmap

(2019) Christophe Malaterre et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Trait probability density ( TPD ): measuring functional diversity across scales based on TPD with R

(2019) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   ECOLOGY

Wild bees in urban grasslands: Urbanisation, functional diversity and species traits

(2019) Sascha Buchholz et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Functional richness: Overview of indices and underlying concepts

(2018) G. Legras et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Both rare and common species make unique contributions to functional diversity in an ecosystem unaffected by human activities

(2018) Abbie S. A. Chapman et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The importance of accounting for imperfect detection when estimating functional and phylogenetic community structure

(2018) Xingfeng Si et al.   ECOLOGY

Journeys through discrete-character morphospace: synthesizing phylogeny, tempo, and disparity

(2018) Graeme T. Lloyd   PALAEONTOLOGY

Taxonomic and functional diversity change is scale dependent

(2018) Marta A. Jarzyna et al.   Nature Communications

dispRity : A modular R package for measuring disparity

(2018) Thomas Guillerme   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

(2018) Helge Bruelheide et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

How to design trait-based analyses of community assembly mechanisms: Insights and guidelines from a literature review

(2017) Rémi Perronne et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Global priorities for conservation across multiple dimensions of mammalian diversity

(2017) Fernanda T. Brum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

(2017) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Towards a Common Toolbox for Rarity: A Response to Violle et al.

(2017) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover

(2017) Lee E. Brown et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality

(2017) Nicolas Gross et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Do Hypervolumes Have Holes?

(2016) Benjamin Blonder   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Estimating morphological diversity and tempo with discrete character-taxon matrices: implementation, challenges, progress, and future directions

(2016) Graeme T. Lloyd   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Assessing vulnerability of functional diversity to species loss: a case study in Mediterranean agricultural systems

(2016) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Which randomizations detect convergence and divergence in trait-based community assembly? A test of commonly used null models

(2016) Lars Götzenberger et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional diversity through the mean trait dissimilarity: resolving shortcomings with existing paradigms and algorithms

(2016) Francesco de Bello et al.   OECOLOGIA

The Density Awakens: A Reply to Blonder

(2016) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

(2016) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Detecting the Multiple Facets of Biodiversity

(2016) Marta A. Jarzyna et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Dynamic range boxes- a robust nonparametric approach to quantify size and overlap ofn-dimensional hypervolumes

(2016) Robert R. Junker et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Decomposing functional diversity

(2016) Samuel M. Scheiner et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

On the notion of dispersion: from dispersion to diversity

(2016) Hans-Rolf Gregorius et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

‘Equivalent numbers’ for species, phylogenetic or functional diversity in a nested hierarchy of multiple scales

(2016) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A protocol for conducting and presenting results of regression-type analyses

(2016) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A new probabilistic method for quantifyingn-dimensional ecological niches and niche overlap

(2015) Heidi K. Swanson et al.   ECOLOGY

Individual-level trait diversity concepts and indices to comprehensively describe community change in multidimensional trait space

(2015) Simone Fontana et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2015) Eva Maire et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

entropart: AnRPackage to Measure and Partition Diversity

(2015) Eric Marcon et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Effects of land use on taxonomic and functional diversity: a cross-taxon analysis in a Mediterranean landscape

(2015) Violeta Hevia et al.   OECOLOGIA

Unifying Species Diversity, Phylogenetic Diversity, Functional Diversity, and Related Similarity and Differentiation Measures Through Hill Numbers

(2014) Anne Chao et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Then-dimensional hypervolume

(2014) Benjamin Blonder et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Distance-Based Functional Diversity Measures and Their Decomposition: A Framework Based on Hill Numbers

(2014) Chun-Huo Chiu et al.   PLoS One

Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

(2014) D. Mouillot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

(2014) C. Violle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

(2014) C. Lamanna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BAT - Biodiversity Assessment Tools, an R package for the measurement and estimation of alpha and beta taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity

(2014) Pedro Cardoso et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Decomposing functional β-diversity reveals that low functional β-diversity is driven by low functional turnover in European fish assemblages

(2013) Sébastien Villéger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Partitioning taxon, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity into replacement and richness difference components

(2013) Pedro Cardoso et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional diversity: a tool for answering challenging ecological questions

(2013) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Taxonomical and functional diversity turnover in Mediterranean grasslands: interactions between grazing, habitat type and rainfall

(2012) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Seasonal Variations Alter the Impact of Functional Traits on Plankton Dynamics

(2012) Marcia R. Rocha et al.   PLoS One

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Defining conservation priorities for freshwater fishes according to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity

(2011) Angela L. Strecker et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Diversity and community assembly patterns of epigean vs. troglobiont spiders in the Iberian Peninsula

(2011) Pedro Cardoso   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity

(2011) K. Safi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach

(2010) S. Pavoine et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity

(2010) Hanna Tuomisto   ECOGRAPHY

A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 2. Quantifying beta diversity and related phenomena

(2010) Hanna Tuomisto   ECOGRAPHY

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

(2010) Francesco De Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives

(2009) R. D. Holt   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

(2009) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Towards a consensus for calculating dendrogram-based functional diversity indices

(2008) Maud Mouchet et al.   OIKOS