Recent work has shown that evaluating functional trait distinctiveness, the average trait
distance of a species to other species in a community offers promising insights into …

Estimating phenotypic distributions of populations and communities is central to many
questions in ecology and evolution. These distributions can be characterized by their …

Studies on the composition and structure of living organisms communities in terms of their
functional traits became very popular the last decades. The functional approach is …

Beyond the local abundance of species, their functional trait distinctiveness is now
recognized as a key driver of community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Yet, since the …

Deciphering the effect of neutral and deterministic processes on community assembly is
critical to understand and predict diversity patterns. The information held in community trait …

This study assessed the impact of altitude, precipitation, and soil conditions on species
richness (SR), phylogenetic diversity (PD), and functional diversity (FD) standardized effect …

Plant communities in mountainous areas shift gradually as climatic conditions change with
altitude. How trait structure in multivariate space adapts to these varying climates in natural …

The island rule is a putative pattern in island evolution, where small species become larger
on islands and large species become smaller. Despite decades of study, a mechanistic …

Community assembly theory states that species assemble non-randomly as a result of
dispersal limitation, biotic interactions, and environmental filtering. Strong environmental …

Despite evidence of a positive effect of functional diversity on ecosystem productivity, the
importance of functionally distinct species (ie species that display an original combination of …