Functional diversity and functional traits
Hydrodynamic conditioning of diversity and functional traits in subtidal estuarine macrozoobenthic communities
... 6 dominating fine, organic sediments (Pearson and Rosenberg, 1978; Robertson et al., 2015), but is also likely to be associated with lower current velocities. As water depth, distance from tidal flats, hydrodynamic ...
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Extinction and the loss of functional diversity
... that functional groups exist. Using a continuous measure of functional diversity (FD) derived from the quantitative functional traits of species, we show that the loss of ...
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Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and the scaling of functional diversity in the Azores
... in functional traits on islands and how, for example, they may be affected by the introduction of exotic ...a functional diversity index (FRic) to test for nonrandomness in the contribution of ...
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Shifts in mollusc traits following floodplain reconnection: testing the response of functional diversity components
... and functional similarity between floodplain communities ...2007). Functional traits and their diversity are powerful tools indicating both the mechanisms driving community compositions after ...
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Tree species diversity promotes aboveground carbon storage through functional diversity and functional dominance
... of functional rich- ness on aboveground carbon in this study might be due to the num- ber of functional traits ...three functional traits were considered; although these traits ...
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Monitoring plant functional diversity from space
... of traits and their connection to function continue to grow 18,19 , local observations of plant functional traits are limited along multiple ...plant functional diversity globally is ...
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Monitoring plant functional diversity from space
... plant functional biodiversity are grossly incomplete and non- representative taxonomically, geographically, environmentally, temporally and ...of traits and their connection to function continue to grow ...
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Diversity of Life-History Traits, Functional Groups and Indicator Species of Bee Communities from Farmlands of Central Uganda
... about functional groups and indicator species of bee communities from agricultural landscapes in Sub-Saharan Africa and ...life-history traits. Diverse bee functional groups have different ...
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The functional diversity and redundancy of corals
... of functional forms, which are often lacking in important attributes such as fast growth rates or three- dimensional morphologies (Hughes et ...in diversity and composition of corals may be an important ...
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Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably
... which traits are most relevant for responses to environmental change, or that con- tribute most to certain ecosystem functions and services, and how these vary among ...these traits because they are ...
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Functional traits and root morphology of alpine plants
... plant diversity, plant functional types, PFTs, ski slope, soil erosion, tensile strength, alpine ...Species diversity or the presence of a specific species may be key factors in forming a plant cover ...
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Response of wild bee diversity, abundance, and functional traits to vineyard inter-row management intensity and landscape diversity across Europe
... certain traits may respond similarly to a certain vegetation management measure or landscape configuration in wine-grow- ing ...landscape diversity with their increased activity range and forage in more ...
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Functional and Mechanistic Diversity of Distal Transcription Enhancers
... difficulty in mapping and characterizing gene-distal enhancers and thus reflect an artificial bias for protein-coding regions. Another contributing factor, however, may be that enhancers are not as sensitive to single ...
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Rainfall variability, plant functional traits and productivity in grasslands
... variance traits with the coefficient of variation in live aboveground net primary production from 2015- ...variance traits and Shannon’s/Simpson’s diversity ...plant functional traits ...
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Nitrogen use efficiency and related functional traits in wheat
... genetic diversity contained in the three genomes, and a buffering effect of being hexaploid leading to subtle, rather than detrimental, effects of mutations (Dubcovsky & Dvorak, ...that functional ...
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Phenological diversity is linked to the diversity of functional traits in alpine grasslands
... X The spatial distribution of phases reflects the spatial distribution of plant species or functional groups, having different phenology (Julitta et al... Motivation: Biodiversity effect[r] ...
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Discourse ethics and functional diversity
... El discurso argumentativo, formulado como experimento mental, cons- tituye también un principio de la acción individual. En relación con la obligación moral individual, Apel p[r] ...
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Functional diversity of jasmonates in rice
... Indeed, treatments of rice shoots with ET induce high expression levels of genes responsible for JA biosynthesis and signaling in roots. These all indicate[r] ...
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Functional diversity of mirna in plants
... Considering that miRNAs play a crucial role in gene regulatory networks, it can be concluded that a complete understanding of miRNA functions will bring us some new concepts, approaches and strategies for the study of ...
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Exploitation of Rhizobacteria for Functional Traits in Mungbean
... Conclusion This study showed that three rhizobacterial isolates (B2, P10 and A3) were most promising for PGP traits, biocontrol and stress tolerant activities and have potential to be used in future as PGP ...
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