… We investigated functional diversity (FD) for 2.8 M km 2 forests in North America. … One such
measure is the functional diversity (FD) of plants coexisting in communities, which potentially …

… Finally, strong gradients in phylogenetic diversity exist in Canada owing … Spatial structure
within the residuals of ecological versus taxonomic richness demonstrate regions of “functional…

… To quantify functional diversity we used functional richness, which measures the amount
of trait space occupied by the species in the community (Villéger et al., 2008). For …

… , Canada, we determine (1) how individuals’ phylogenetic and trait relationships scale with
space; and, (2) the spatial … switches in the direction of the phylogenetic and trait patterns. …

… or niche space and used species-specific mean niche positions within this construct to quantify
an … trait or functional diversity index; and (2) we compiled data describing phylogenetic …

… Starting from the listing of the main used functional diversity indices, alongside with the …
obtained using functional diversity indices. By doing so, we reveal that functional diversity of the …

… community and also assume that the phylogeny is a reliable proxy for functional trait
diversity, an assumption violated by traits that are not phylogenetically conserved (Cavender-Bares …

… most of central Canada and a portion of the south-central United States. The threshold of
15 species was chosen after computing both alpha and beta diversity metrics across the full …

… The functional traits used in this study are commonly used in studies on fish functional
diversity (eg, Olden et al. 2006, Frimpong and Angermeier 2010, Villéger et al. 2014) and include …

… Taken together, our results reconfirmed that functional diversity and species relatedness
were dependent on climatic and energetic variables. In this study, richness-controlled …