Trait‐based approaches are increasingly being used to test mechanisms underlying species
assemblages and biotic interactions across a wide range of organisms including terrestrial …

Aquatic ecologists face challenges in identifying the general rules of the functioning of
ecosystems. A common framework, including freshwater, marine, benthic, and pelagic …

Dispersal is an essential process in population and community dynamics, but is difficult to
measure in the field. In freshwater ecosystems, information on biological traits related to …

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

Community ecology has broadened considerably with the recognition that it is not only at the
species‐level data where biological patterns and their determinants should be studied …

Functional traits are morphological, biochemical, physiological, structural, phenological or
behavioural characteristics of organisms that influence performance or fitness. Grou** …

Functional traits have long been considered the 'holy grail'in community ecology due to their
potential to link phenotypic variation with ecological processes. Advancements across …

Invertebrate traits, diversity and the vulnerability of groundwater ecosystems Page 1 2200 |
Functional Ecology. 2022;36:2200–2214. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/fec Received: 30 …

Alien fish substantially impact aquatic communities. However, their effects on trait
composition remain poorly understood, especially at large spatiotemporal scales. Here, we …

Functional traits are increasingly being used to predict extinction risks and range shifts
under long‐term climate change scenarios, but have rarely been used to study vulnerability …