The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

DC Laughlin - Journal of ecology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plants are multifaceted organisms that have evolved numerous solutions to the problem of
establishing, growing and reproducing with limited resources. The intrinsic dimensionality of …

The use of multiple biological traits in marine community ecology and its potential in ecological indicator development

O Beauchard, H Veríssimo, AM Queirós… - Ecological indicators, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Biological traits offer valuable approaches to understand species distributions and
underlying mechanisms. Their use has received a growing interest in marine community …

The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe

EA Martin, M Dainese, Y Clough, A Báldi… - Ecology …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity and ecosystem services is a key
aim of a sustainable agriculture. However, how the spatial arrangement of crop fields and …

Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

S Gámez-Virués, DJ Perović, MM Gossner… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
Biodiversity loss can affect the viability of ecosystems by decreasing the ability of
communities to respond to environmental change and disturbances. Agricultural …

taxize: taxonomic search and retrieval in R

SA Chamberlain, E Szöcs - F1000Research, 2013‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
All species are hierarchically related to one another, and we use taxonomic names to label
the nodes in this hierarchy. Taxonomic data is becoming increasingly available on the web …

Combining the fourth‐corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation

S Dray, P Choler, S Dolédec, PR Peres-Neto… - Ecology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Assessing trait responses to environmental gradients requires the simultaneous analysis of
the information contained in three tables: L (species distribution across samples), R …

Functional traits, convergent evolution, and periodic tables of niches

KO Winemiller, DB Fitzgerald, LM Bower… - Ecology …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecology is often said to lack general theories sufficiently predictive for applications. Here, we
examine the concept of a periodic table of niches and feasibility of niche classification …

The fourth‐corner solution–using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment

AM Brown, DI Warton, NR Andrew… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
An important problem encountered by ecologists in species distribution modelling (SDM)
and in multivariate analysis is that of understanding why environmental responses differ …

Time will tell: resource continuity bolsters ecosystem services

NA Schellhorn, V Gagic, R Bommarco - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2015‏ - cell.com
A common suggestion to support ecosystem services to agriculture provided by mobile
organisms is to increase the amount of natural and seminatural habitat in the landscape …

[HTML][HTML] Congruency between two traditional and eDNA-based sampling methods in characterising taxonomic and trait-based structure of fish communities and …

I Czeglédi, P Sály, A Specziár, B Preiszner… - Ecological …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Recent developments in environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding suggest that eDNA-
based representation of ecological communities can be a promising tool in both …