Ongoing habitat loss and fragmentation caused by human activities represent one of the
greatest causes of biodiversity loss. However, the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation …

Roots are essential to the diversity and functioning of plant communities, but trade‐offs in
rooting strategies are still poorly understood. We evaluated existing frameworks of rooting …

Predicting community‐level trait indices, such as community‐weighted mean or functional
dispersion, in space or time, is crucial, as they are markers of ecosystem functions, proxies …

Island biogeography theory provides key insights into biodiversity patterns across islands,
species–area relationships and conservation. However, classical island biogeography …

There is strong trait dependence in species‐level responses to environmental change and
their cascading effects on ecosystem functioning. However, there is little understanding of …

Global changes in nutrient deposition rates and habitat fragmentation are likely to have
profound effects on plant communities, particularly in the nutrient-limited systems of the …

One of the effective tools to study the variation between communities is the use of pairwise
dissimilarity indices. Besides species as variables, the involvement of trait information …

In the recent years a variety of indices have been proposed with the aim of quantifying
functional dissimilarity between communities. These indices follow different approaches to …