Quantifying Functional Biodiversity

• Main Authors: Pla, Laura (Author), Casanoves, Fernando (Author), Di Rienzo, Julio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biostatistics.; Ecology.; Biodiversity.; Climate change.; Life Sciences.; Climate Change.

Functional diversity (FD) – the value, range, and abundance of functional traits in a given community or ecosystem – is increasingly accepted as a synthetic ecological concept that sheds light on ecosystem functioning. Standard tools for comparing FD across different ecosystems and for different eco...