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 …

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

A new framework for measuring functional diversity (FD) from multiple traits has recently
been proposed. This framework was mostly limited to quantitative traits without missing …

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 …

Functional diversity is hypothesised as being beneficial for ecosystem functions, such as
productivity and resistance to invasion. However, a precise definition of functional diversity …

Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of
things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems. Here, we review how functional …

Functional diversity is the diversity of species traits in ecosystems. This concept is
increasingly used in ecological research, yet its formal definition and measurements are …

Spatially explicit understanding of the delivery of multiple ecosystem services (ES) from
global to local scales is currently limited. New studies analysing the simultaneous provision …

Question Which functional diversity indices have the power to reveal changes in community
assembly processes along abiotic stress gradients? Is their power affected by stochastic …

Abstract Question: Is Rao's quadratic entropy a suitable measure of functional diversity if
several traits are considered? Methods: It is checked whether Rao's quadratic entropy (FDQ) …