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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Owing to the conceptual complexity of functional diversity (FD), a multitude of different
methods are available for measuring it, with most being operational at only a small range of …

Assessing functional diversity from space can help predict productivity and stability of forest
ecosystems at global scale using biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. We …