Fish communities face increasing anthropogenic pressures in freshwater and marine
ecosystems that modify their biodiversity and threaten the services they supply to human …

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

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

Human activities have strong impacts on ecosystem functioning through their effect on
abiotic factors and on biodiversity. There is also growing evidence that species functional …

The ability to predict the responses of ecological communities and individual species to
human-induced environmental change remains a key issue for ecologists and conservation …

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 …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

Pioneering investigations on the effects of introduced populations on community structure,
ecosystem functioning and services have focused on the effects of invaders on taxonomic …

The present review with focus on the last decade (2000–2010) aims to (i) collecting the
major hypotheses explaining freshwater biodiversity patterns,(ii) identifying the main …