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| Darling, Emily S.; Graham, Nicholas A. J.; Januchowski-hartley, Fraser A.; Nash, Kirsty L.; Pratchett, Morgan S.; Wilson, Shaun K.. |
| With the ongoing loss of coral cover and the associated flattening of reef architecture, understanding the links between coral habitat and reef fishes is of critical importance. Here, we investigate whether considering coral traits and functional diversity provides new insights into the relationship between structural complexity and reef fish communities, and whether coral traits and community composition can predict structural complexity. Across 157 sites in Seychelles, Maldives, the Chagos Archipelago, and Australia's Great Barrier Reef, we find that structural complexity and reef zone are the strongest and most consistent predictors of reef fish abundance, biomass, species richness, and trophic structure. However, coral traits, diversity, and life... |
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Palavras-chave: Habitat diversity; Species traits; Functional ecology; Reef architecture; Scleractinian corals; Coral reef fish. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00389/49997/74763.pdf |
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| Leclerc, Camille; Villéger, Sébastien; Marino, Clara; Bellard, Céline; Di Minin, Enrico. |
| Aim The assessment of biodiversity patterns under global changes is currently biased towards taxonomic diversity, thus overlooking the ecological and functional aspects of species. Here, we characterized both taxonomic and functional diversity of insular biodiversity threatened by multiple threats. Location Worldwide islands (n = 4,348). Methods We analysed the relative importance of eleven major threats, including biological invasions or climate change, on 2,756 insular endemic mammals and birds. Species were functionally described using five ecological traits related to diet, habitat and body mass. We computed complementary taxonomic and functional diversity indices (richness, specialization, originality and vulnerability) of species pools affected by... |
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Palavras-chave: Birds; Functional originality; Functional richness; Functional specialization; Islands; Mammals; Species traits; Vulnerability. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00607/71949/70648.pdf |
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| Chao, Anne; Chiu, Chun-huo; Villéger, Sébastien; Sun, I-fang; Thorn, Simon; Lin, Yi-ching; Chiang, Jyh-min; Sherwin, William B.. |
| Based on the framework of attribute diversity (a generalization of Hill numbers of order q), we develop a class of functional diversity measures sensitive not only to species abundances but also to trait‐based species‐pairwise functional distances. The new method refines and improves on the conventional species‐equivalent approach in three areas: (1) the conventional method often gives similar values (close to unity) to assemblages with contrasting levels of functional diversity; (2) when a distance metric is unbounded, the conventional functional diversity depends on the presence/absence of other assemblages in the study; (3) in partitioning functional gamma diversity into alpha and beta components, the conventional gamma is sometimes less than alpha. To... |
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Palavras-chave: Attribute diversity; Diversity decomposition; Functional (dis)similarity; Functional beta diversity; Functional diversity; Hill numbers; Quadratic entropy; Species diversity; Species traits; Trait diversity. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00489/60082/63408.pdf |
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