Understanding, modeling, and predicting the impact of global change on ecosystem
functioning across biogeographical gradients can benefit from enhanced capacity to …

Owing to the conceptual complexity of functional diversity (FD), a multitude of different
methods are available for measuring it, with most being operational at only a small range of …

Functional ecology is the branch of ecology that focuses on various functions that species
play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. This accessible guide offers the …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 365–377 Abstract Many studies in recent years have investigated
the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the …

Rarity has been a central topic for conservation and evolutionary biologists aiming to
determine the species characteristics that cause extinction risk. More recently, beyond the …

The goal of conservation and restoration activities is to maintain biological diversity and the
ecosystem services that this diversity provides. These activities traditionally focus on the …

Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand
challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and …

Species richness has dominated our view of global biodiversity patterns for centuries,. The
dominance of this paradigm is reflected in the focus by ecologists and conservation …

Conservation priorities that are based on species distribution, endemism, and vulnerability
may underrepresent biologically unique species as well as their functional roles and …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are statistical tools that relate species observations to
environmental conditions to retrieve ecological niches and predict species' potential …