Can metabolic traits explain animal community assembly and functioning?

SJ Brandl, JS Lefcheck, AE Bates… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
All animals on Earth compete for free energy, which is acquired, assimilated, and ultimately
allocated to growth and reproduction. Competition is strongest within communities of …

La diversidad funcional en comunidades animales: una revisión que hace énfasis en los vertebrados

Y Gómez–Ortiz, CE Moreno - Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2017 - raco.cat
La diversidad funcional es la variedad de funciones que desempeñan las especies en los
ecosistemas. Su estudio en comunidades animales todavía es incipiente y, por ello, el …

[HTML][HTML] An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity

J Burbano-Girón, K Jantke, MA Molina-Berbeo… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Given the increasing threats to biodiversity and limited resources for conservation, our
knowledge about the uncertainty in surrogates for representing comprehensively the spatial …

A species-level trait dataset of bats in Europe and beyond

JSP Froidevaux, N Toshkova, L Barbaro… - Scientific data, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of species' functional traits is essential for understanding biodiversity
patterns, predicting the impacts of global environmental changes, and assessing the …

Multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate alpha diversity are driven by different ecological factors across an extensive altitudinal gradient

Z Li, X Jiang, J Wang, X Meng, J Heino… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental filtering and spatial structuring are important ecological processes for the
generation and maintenance of biodiversity. However, the relative importance of these …

Rare and common species contribute disproportionately to the functional variation within tropical forests

S Zhang, R Zang, D Sheil - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding how functional traits and functional entities (FEs, ie, unique combinations of
functional traits) are distributed within plant communities can contribute to the understanding …

Structural bias in aggregated species‐level variables driven by repeated species co‐occurrences: A pervasive problem in community and assemblage data

BA Hawkins, B Leroy, MÁ Rodríguez… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species attributes are often used to explain diversity patterns across assemblages/
communities. However, repeated species co‐occurrences can generate spatial pattern and …

Distribution of mammal functional diversity in the Neotropical realm: Influence of land-use and extinction risk

JF González-Maya, E Martínez-Meyer, R Medellín… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Functional diversity represents a measure of diversity that incorporates the role of species in
an ecosystem, and therefore its dynamics and resilience. Assessing its drivers and spatial …

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

WY Guo, JM Serra-Diaz, F Schrodt… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Safeguarding Earth's tree diversity is a conservation priority due to the importance of trees
for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services such as carbon sequestration. Here …

Mammal functional diversity increases with vegetation structural complexity in two forest types

HT Sukma, J Di Stefano, M Swan, H Sitters - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Enhanced understanding of relationships between functional diversity (FD) and
environmental gradients is crucial given accelerating rates of land-cover change and …