A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients
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...Although there is now a wide variety of functional diversity indices applicable at the local to landscape scales (see for example Mason et al., 2013), currently there are no general metrics that could be used to assess status or trends in functional diversity at broader scales....
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...Branch lengths were computed following Grafen (1989) using the ‘compute.brlen’ in R package ‘ape’ (Paradis et al. 2004; R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, AT, Australia)....
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...However, we recognize that species’ responses to environmental heterogeneity and interspecific competition may be influenced by different traits inmany instances (Chesson 2000)....
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...Mass effects occur when source–sink metapopulation dynamics allow species to occur at low abundance in communities where they are unable to maintain a viable population (Kunin 1998; Leibold et al. 2004)....
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...Generating regional species pools and locally optimal trait values Values for a single trait were simulated for 130 indigenous New Zealand herbaceous and woody angiosperm, gymnosperm and fern species following a Brownian motion model of evolution with mean of 0 and SD of 1 (Blomberg et al. 2003)....
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