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

Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships

(2011) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY

Determining appropriate goals for restoration of imperilled communities and species

(2011) Andrea S. Thorpe et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Combining high biodiversity with high yields in tropical agroforests

(2011) Y. Clough et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Loss of functional diversity of ant assemblages in secondary tropical forests

(2010) Jochen H. Bihn et al.   ECOLOGY

Disturbance effects on species diversity and functional diversity in riparian and upland plant communities

(2010) Shekhar R. Biswas et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Patterns of functional biodiversity and function-environment relationships in lake littoral macroinvertebrates

(2010) Jani Heino   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Fertilization and litter effects on the functional group biomass, species diversity of plants, microbial biomass, and enzyme activity of two alpine meadow communities

(2010) Changting Wang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant mineral nutrition in ancient landscapes: high plant species diversity on infertile soils is linked to functional diversity for nutritional strategies

(2010) Hans Lambers et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Patterns and gradients of diversity in South Patagonian ombrotrophic peat bogs

(2009) TILL KLEINEBECKER et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Functional-diversity indices can be driven by methodological choices and species richness

(2009) Mark S. Poos et al.   ECOLOGY

Simulated geographic variations of plant species richness, evenness and abundance using climatic constraints on plant functional diversity

(2009) Axel Kleidon et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Variation in leaf functional trait values within and across individuals and species: an example from a Costa Rican dry forest

(2009) Catherine M. Hulshof et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant genetic diversity yields increased plant productivity and herbivore performance

(2009) Agnieszka M. Kotowska et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem services: a synthesis across ecosystems and spatial scales

(2009) Christian K. Feld et al.   OIKOS

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

Competition for Light Causes Plant Biodiversity Loss After Eutrophication

(2009) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Emerging horizons in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research

(2009) Julia Reiss et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

CONSEQUENCES OF DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF EVENNESS EFFECTS ON LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES

(2008) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

(2008) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional diversity predicts overyielding effect of species combination on primary productivity

(2008) John N. Griffin et al.   OIKOS

Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

(2008) M. W. Cadotte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional group diversity of bee pollinators increases crop yield

(2008) P. Hoehn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES