Functional rarity: the ecology of outliers

C Violle, W Thuiller, N Mouquet, F Munoz… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2017‏ - cell.com
Rarity has been a central topic for conservation and evolutionary biologists aiming to
determine the species characteristics that cause extinction risk. More recently, beyond the …

Sources of controversy surrounding latitudinal patterns in herbivory and defense

DN Anstett, KA Nunes, C Baskett… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2016‏ - cell.com
Both herbivory and plant defenses against herbivores have been predicted to increase
toward tropical regions. Early tests of this latitudinal herbivory-defense hypothesis (LHDH) …

Dominant role of abundant rather than rare bacterial taxa in maintaining agro-soil microbiomes under environmental disturbances

S Jiao, J Wang, G Wei, W Chen, Y Lu - Chemosphere, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Elucidating the mechanisms underpinning the responses of abundant and rare microbial
taxa to environmental disturbances is essential for understanding the biodiversity-stability …

Forest bees are replaced in agricultural and urban landscapes by native species with different phenologies and life‐history traits

T Harrison, J Gibbs, R Winfree - Global Change Biology, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic landscapes are associated with biodiversity loss and large shifts in species
composition and traits. These changes predict the identities of winners and losers of future …

Diverse belowground resource strategies underlie plant species coexistence and spatial distribution in three grasslands along a precipitation gradient

H Li, B Liu, ML McCormack, Z Ma, D Guo - New Phytologist, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits and their variation mediate plant species coexistence and spatial
distribution. Yet, how patterns of variation in belowground traits influence resource …

Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?

R Muscarella, M Uriarte - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2016‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The notion that relationships between community-weighted mean (CWM) traits (ie plot-level
trait values weighted by species abundances) and environmental conditions reflect selection …

funrar: An R package to characterize functional rarity

M Grenié, P Denelle, CM Tucker… - Diversity and …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Emphasis has been put in recent ecological research on investigating phylogenetic,
functional and taxonomic facets of biological diversity. While a flourishing number of indices …

Convergence and divergence in a long‐term old‐field succession: the importance of spatial scale and species abundance

S Li, MW Cadotte, SJ Meiners, Z Pu, T Fukami… - Ecology …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Whether plant communities in a given region converge towards a particular stable state
during succession has long been debated, but rarely tested at a sufficiently long time scale …

Rare species contribute greater to ecosystem multifunctionality in a subtropical forest than common species due to their functional diversity

R Tang, S Li, X Lang, X Huang, J Su - Forest Ecology and Management, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Global environmental change and increased human activities have led to rare species being
given vulnerable status, as well as species losses and extinctions in recent years. However …

Harsh environmental regimes increase the functional significance of intraspecific variation in plant communities

K Niu, S Zhang, MJ Lechowicz - Functional Ecology, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The relative importance of intraspecific trait variation (rITV) for functional diversity (FD) in
plant communities is increasingly apparent, but the influence of abiotic factors on the …