Indices quantifying the functional aspect of biodiversity are essential in understanding
relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and environmental constraints …

Hill numbers or the effective number of species are increasingly used to quantify species
diversity of an assemblage. Hill numbers were recently extended to phylogenetic diversity …

Functional diversity is increasingly identified as an important driver of ecosystem functioning.
Various indices have been proposed to measure the functional diversity of a community, but …

The food environment is a critical place in the food system to implement interventions to
support sustainable diets and address the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and …

One of the oldest challenges in ecology is to understand the processes that underpin the
composition of communities. Historically, an obvious way in which to describe community …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

Although several studies have examined the functional diversity of freshwater
macroinvertebrates, the variety of methodologies combined with the absence of a synthetic …

The growing interest in functional diversity has been accompanied by a proliferation of
indices proposed to calculate its different components; however, empirical studies have …

Improvements in agricultural production have drastically increased grain yields in the past
half-century. Despite this growth in productivity and calories available per capita …

Invasive alien species (IAS) poses a significant threat to plant biodiversity globally and even
considered one of the largest threats to biodiversity, second to habitat loss. They behave as …