In light of rapid shifts in biodiversity associated with human impacts, there is an urgent need
to understand how changing patterns in biodiversity impact ecosystem function. Functional …

Understanding the processes sha** biological communities under multiple disturbances
is a core challenge in ecology and conservation science. Traditionally, ecologists have …

Abstract Aim The Hutchinsonian hypervolume is the conceptual foundation for many lines of
ecological and evolutionary inquiry, including functional morphology, comparative biology …

Around the world, the human-induced collapses of populations and species have triggered
a sixth mass extinction crisis, with rare species often being the first to disappear. Although …

ABSTRACT A growing body of evidence highlights the importance of biodiversity for
ecosystem stability and the maintenance of optimal ecosystem functionality. Conservation …

Understanding how communities of living organisms assemble has been a central question
in ecology since the early days of the discipline. Disentangling the different processes …

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 …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1030–1040 Abstract Functional and phylogenetic diversity are
increasingly quantified in various fields of ecology and conservation biology. The need to …

The preservation of ecosystem processes under ongoing biotic erosion requires that some
species within affected communities perform similar functions, a property that is usually …