Taxonomic and functional diversity of rotifers, what do they tell us about community assembly?

Salinity shapes zooplankton communities and functional diversity and has complex effects on size structure in lakes

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Functional diversity of aquatic ciliates

(2017) Thomas Weisse   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Functional richness outperforms taxonomic richness in predicting ecosystem functioning in natural phytoplankton communities

(2017) András Abonyi et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Comparative analysis of the spatio-temporal dynamics of rotifer community structure based on taxonomic indices and functional groups in two subtropical lakes

(2017) Xinli Wen et al.   Scientific Reports

Seasonal variability in the structure and functional diversity of psammic rotifer communities: role of environmental parameters

(2016) Külli Lokko et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide

(2016) Carlo Ricotta et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phytoplankton functional response to spatial and temporal differences in a cold and oligotrophic lake

(2015) Maria Cellamare et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

A trait-based approach to summarize zooplankton–phytoplankton interactions in freshwaters

(2015) Maite Colina et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Community assembly of rotifers based on morphological traits

(2015) Ulrike Obertegger et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Evaluation of functional trait diversity for marine zooplankton communities in the Northeast subarctic Pacific Ocean

(2015) Corinne Pomerleau et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Identifying copepod functional groups from species functional traits

(2015) Fabio Benedetti et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Beta Regression inR

(2015) Francisco Cribari-Neto et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Comparing seasonal dynamics of functional and taxonomic diversity reveals the driving forces underlying phytoplankton community structure

(2014) Guntram Weithoff et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Trait- and size-based descriptions of trophic links in freshwater food webs: current status and perspectives

(2014) David S. Boukal   JOURNAL OF LIMNOLOGY

Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

(2013) William J. Sutherland et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Trait-based approaches to zooplankton communities

(2013) Elena Litchman et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Using functional traits to investigate the determinants of crustacean zooplankton community structure

(2013) Richard J. Vogt et al.   OIKOS

Response of rotifer functional groups to changing trophic state and crustacean community

(2012) Ulrike OBERTEGGER et al.   JOURNAL OF LIMNOLOGY

Role of intra-community biotic interactions in structuring riverine zooplankton under low-flow, summer conditions

(2012) I. Bertani et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Strong Spatial Influence on Colonization Rates in a Pioneer Zooplankton Metacommunity

(2012) Dagmar Frisch et al.   PLoS One

Advances, challenges and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory

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

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

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization?

(2010) Joanne Clavel et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Using the guild ratio to characterize pelagic rotifer communities

(2010) Ulrike Obertegger et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Diversity and structure of the winter rotifer assemblage in a shallow eutrophic northern temperate Lake Võrtsjärv

(2009) Taavi Virro et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Rotifer–crustacean interactions in a pseudokarstic lake: influence of hydrology

(2009) Ulrike Obertegger et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Including intraspecific variability in functional diversity

(2009) M. V. Cianciaruso et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Multifactorial nature of rotifer water layer preferences in an oligotrophic lake

(2008) U. Obertegger et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH