Trait‐based ecology aims to understand the processes that generate the overarching
diversity of organismal traits and their influence on ecosystem functioning. Achieving this …

Functional diversity (FD), the diversity of organism attributes that relates to their interactions
with the abiotic and biotic environment, has been increasingly used for the last two decades …

Functional richness, currently defined as the amount of niche space occupied by the species
within a community, is one of the three major components of functional diversity. Different …

Understanding ecological processes that drive metacommunity dynamics is essential for
elucidating the mechanisms of community assembly and for guiding biodiversity …

Documenting the patterns of biological diversity on Earth has always been a central
challenge in macroecology and biogeography. However, for the diverse group of freshwater …

River damming reduces the dispersal rates of biota and filter species by altering the local
environmental conditions. Although phytoplankton is a key biotic group to indicate changes …

The impact of the variation of the number of functional traits on functional diversity
assessment is still poorly known. Although the covariation between these two parameters …

The quantification of Hutchinson's n‐dimensional hypervolume has enabled substantial
progress in community ecology, species niche analysis and beyond. However, most existing …

Functional diversity is regarded as a key concept for understanding the link between
ecosystem function and biodiversity. The different and ecologically well‐defined aspects of …

We evaluated how the taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles responds to
landscape fragmentation in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (LTBR). We sampled dung …