The use of functional diversity analyses in ecology has grown exponentially over the past
two decades, broadening our understanding of biological diversity and its change across …

One of ecology's grand challenges is develo** general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …

Plant traits determine how individual plants cope with heterogeneous environments. Despite
large variability in individual traits, trait coordination and trade-offs, result in some trait …

Despite elaborate regulation of agricultural pesticides, their occurrence in non-target areas
has been linked to adverse ecological effects on insects in several field investigations. Their …

While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the
diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here, we outline the …

Functional ecology is the branch of ecology that focuses on various functions that species
play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. This accessible guide offers the …

Aquatic ecologists face challenges in identifying the general rules of the functioning of
ecosystems. A common framework, including freshwater, marine, benthic, and pelagic …

Drastic biodiversity declines have raised concerns about the deterioration of ecosystem
functions and have motivated much recent research on the relationship between species …

Understanding, modeling, and predicting the impact of global change on ecosystem
functioning across biogeographical gradients can benefit from enhanced capacity to …

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 …