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Quantifying Functional Biodiversity (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Quantifying Functional Biodiversity (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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Functional diversity (FD) defined as the value, range, and
abundance of functional traits in a given community or ecosystem is
increasingly accepted as a synthetic ecological concept that sheds
light on ecosystem functioning. Functional group richness and
functional biodiversity indices have been proposed to quantify the
FD of a community, or some of its components. The comparative
assessment of FD in different ecosystems and for different
ecosystem processes would be an invaluable tool for a better and
more general understanding of what are the functional roles of
biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem services. In this volume
we offer a synthesis of the methods used to quantify functional
diversity and step by step examples to define functional groups and
to estimate functional indices. We also compare communities, and
changes of diversity along environmental gradients. All the
examples may be reproduce using electronic data files and
FDiversity, a free software.
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