Ecological theory suggests that biodiversity has a positive and stabilizing effect on the
delivery of ecosystem services. Yet, the impacts of increasing the diversity of cultivated crop …

One of ecology's grand challenges is developing general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …

摘要植物功能性状是指植物体具有的与其定植, 存活, 生长和死亡紧密相关的一系列核心植物
属性, 且这些属性能够显著影响生态系统功能, 并能够反映植被对环境变化的响应 …

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

The goal of conservation and restoration activities is to maintain biological diversity and the
ecosystem services that this diversity provides. These activities traditionally focus on the …

A new framework for measuring functional diversity (FD) from multiple traits has recently
been proposed. This framework was mostly limited to quantitative traits without missing …

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 …

Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of
things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems. Here, we review how functional …

Concern is growing about the consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosystem functioning,
for the provision of ecosystem services, and for human well being. Experimental evidence …