What makes a better indicator? Taxonomic vs functional response of ...

Our results demonstrated that taxonomy-based assemblages were mainly structured by the salinity gradient and further by the interplay of granulometry and ...

... Our results are in line with findings suggesting that functional groups of nematodes exhibit better indicator performance than individual ...

What makes a better indicator? Taxonomic vs functional response of ...

Though, it is still unclear if nematodes taxonomical attributes are driven by the same environmental drivers as their functional (biological traits) ...

What makes a better indicator? Taxonomic vs functional response of ...

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "What makes a better indicator? Taxonomic vs functional response of nematodes to estuarine gradient" by K. Sroczyńska et ...

Functional diversity outperforms taxonomic diversity in revealing ...

Historically, ecologists have debated whether taxonomic or functional diversity metrics are more sensitive in the face of external disturbances, ...

What makes a better indicator? Taxonomic vs functional response of ...

Adão, Spatial distribution of subtidal Nematoda communities along the salinity gradient in southern European estuaries, Acta Oecologica, № 35, с. 287

Responses of Functional and Taxonomic Phytoplankton Diversity to ...

Our hypotheses were partly confirmed. TD and FD were, in fact, dependent on the environment, with higher values occurring in warmer, clearer, and more enriched ...

Taxonomic and functional responses of macroinvertebrates to ...

Environmental variables were associated with taxa distribution but not with functional traits, suggesting current conditions still promote ...

Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey ...

In forests, the largest part of plant species richness, up to more than 80%, is located in the understorey (Gilliam, 2007). Furthermore, ...

The Role of Taxonomic and Functional Macroinvertebrate Diversity ...

Sensitivity of aquatic macroinvertebrates to environmental stressors (e.g. excess nutrients) has made them historic indicators of water quality. Taxonomic ...

How Do Taxonomic and Functional Diversity Metrics Change Along ...

Ecological indicators based on biodiversity metrics are valuable and cost-effective tools to quantify, track and understand the effects of climate change on ...

Taxonomic and functional diversity change is scale dependent

... and biotic change, provides a more sensitive indicator of community change. For each spatial scale, we quantified temporal dissimilarity ...

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Our study therefore reveals that functional metrics are more sensitive than taxonomic metrics to anthropogenic stressors in the studied reservoirs.

Improving approaches to the analysis of functional and taxonomic ...

Abadie et al., Journal of Ecology, 99, 2011, 1134 claim that 'landscape disturbance causes small-scale functional homogenization but limited ...

What makes a better indicator? Taxonomic vs functional response of ...

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Linking functional diversity to ecological indicators: a tool to predict ...

Therefore, we would expect that a greater variety of functional traits favors the maintenance of ecosystem functioning (Díaz and Cabido 2001; ...

Taxonomic sufficiency in freshwater ecosystems: effects of ...

Functional surrogates based on biological traits, such as feeding type, reproductive strategy, and trophic state, were strongly correlated (ρ = 0.64–0.85) with ...

Integrating Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic Beta Diversities

... indicator taxa (birds and ... Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms.

Taxonomic versus functional diversity metrics: How do fish ...

Comparison of the responses of taxonomic and functional diversities to biogeography, habitat and stressors was made in 112 French reservoirs. Widely observed ...

Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem ...

Trait-based indices consistently provided greater explanatory power than species richness or abundance. The frequency distributions of single or ...