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Functional Diversity

Functional Diversity is a component of biodiversity that denotes the range, distribution, and relative abundance of functionally relevant traits among organisms within a community or ecosystem, thereby capturing the diversity of ecological roles and processes they perform.

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Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits

Brian J. McGill, Brian J. Enquist, Evan Weiher et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2006 · 4.6K citations · Full text

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A distance‐based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

Étienne Laliberté, Pierre Legendre · Ecology · 2010 · 4.2K citations

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NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Sébastien Villéger, Norman W. H. Mason, David Mouillot · Ecology · 2008 · 3.5K citations

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Vive la différence: plant functional diversity matters to ecosystem processes

Sandra Dı́az, Marcelo Cabido · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2001 · 3.2K citations · Full text

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The Influence of Functional Diversity and Composition on Ecosystem Processes

David Tilman, Johannes Knops, David A. Wedin et al. · Science · 1997 · 3.2K citations

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  1. FD
    Francesco de Bello

    University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czechia

    52 publications · 10.4K citations

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  2. BS
    Bernhard Schmid

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    47 publications · 7.3K citations

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  3. NE
    Nico Eisenhauer

    Leipzig University, Germany

    37 publications · 6K citations

    34

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  4. PB
    Peter B. Reich

    University of Minnesota, United States

    39 publications · 15.8K citations

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  5. WW
    Wolfgang W. Weisser

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

    36 publications · 5.6K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    93 h-index

    783 publications

    114.4K citations

  2. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    61 h-index

    213 publications

    81K citations

  3. Université de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

    59 h-index

    223 publications

    39K citations

  4. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research

    Leipzig, Germany

    58 h-index

    307 publications

    33.9K citations

  5. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    56 h-index

    163 publications

    26.5K citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    51 h-index

    603 publications

    33.8K citations

  7. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

    Marseille, France

    51 h-index

    246 publications

    28.9K citations

  8. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

    Leipzig, Germany

    50 h-index

    164 publications

    22.9K citations

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  1. Ecology

    154 publications · 24.9K citations

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  2. Journal of Ecology

    107 publications · 13.3K citations

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  3. Oikos

    99 publications · 12.9K citations

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  4. Global Ecology and Biogeography

    75 publications · 8.9K citations

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  5. PLoS ONE

    107 publications · 8.3K citations

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