A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits
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...Consensus is also lacking as to how FD should be calculated (e.g. Podani & Schmera 2006; Petchey & Gaston 2007; Villeger, Mason & Mouillot 2008; Poos, Walker & Jackson 2009; Laliberte & Legendre 2010; Mouchet et al. 2010)....
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...Functional diversity (FD) indices were then computed using an index called functional dispersion (FDis) (Laliberté & Legendre, 2010)....
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...There is a strong and lasting debate over what element of biodiversity matters to ecosystem functioning (Diaz et al., 2007; Mokany et al., 2008) and how it should be quantified (Poos et al., 2009; Laliberté & Legendre, 2010)....
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... The maxent function of the package FD (Laliberté & Legendre 2010; Laliberté & Shipley 2011) was used in the above-‐described calculation of descendant daughter range size weights....
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...In particular, they proposed to use the principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) axes from a Gower dissimilarity matrix (Gower 1971) among the species as the new traits to compute their FD indices when there are qualitative traits in the original (species 3 trait) matrix....
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...We add that it is also useful when some traits are semi-quantitative, when missing trait values are present, and when individual traits need to be weighted differently, because the Gower dissimilarity index can handle all of these situations (Gower 1971, Legendre and Legendre 1998, Podani 1999)....
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...Functional diversity (FD) is a key driver of ecosystem processes (Hooper et al. 2005), ecosystem resilience to environmental change (Folke et al. 2004), and ecosystem services (Dı́az et al. 2007)....
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