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

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 …

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 …

INTRODUCTION There is an urgent need for a new paradigm that integrates the continued
development of human societies and the maintenance of the Earth system (ES) in a resilient …

The idea that there is an identifiable set of boundaries, beyond which anthropogenic change
will put the Earth system outside a safe operating space for humanity, is attracting interest in …

Remote sensing of vegetation phenology has long been used to characterize ecosystem
functions and responses to climate at spatial and temporal scales unfeasible to field surveys …

Plant traits can provide unique insights into plant performance at the community scale.
Functional composition, defined by both functional diversity and community‐weighted trait …

Functional diversity (FD) has the potential to address many ecological questions, from
impacts of global change on biodiversity to ecological restoration. There are several …

Invasive alien species (IAS) poses a significant threat to plant biodiversity globally and even
considered one of the largest threats to biodiversity, second to habitat loss. They behave as …

The widespread use of species traits in basic and applied ecology, conservation and
biogeography has led to an exponential increase in functional diversity analyses, with> 10 …