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Functional Species Groups

Functional Species Groups is a conceptual framework within ecological assessment that classifies species into distinct categories based on their ecological roles and functional traits rather than taxonomic identity, thereby enabling the evaluation of ecosystem processes and community dynamics in terms of functional diversity and redundancy.

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Fishing Down Marine Food Webs

Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen, Anne Johanne Tang Dalsgaard et al. · Science · 1998 · 4.7K citations

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Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management

Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter, Brian Walker et al. · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2004 · 3.8K citations

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Plant Diversity and Productivity Experiments in European Grasslands

Andy Hector, Bernhard Schmid, Carl Beierkuhnlein et al. · Science · 1999 · 2.1K citations

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Functional diversity (FD), species richness and community composition

Owen L. Petchey, Kevin J. Gaston · Ecology Letters · 2002 · 1.9K citations

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Biodiversity and Ecological Redundancy

Brian Walker · Conservation Biology · 1992 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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    Wolfgang W. Weisser

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

    25 publications · 3.4K citations

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  2. CR
    Christiane Roscher

    Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany

    19 publications · 1.9K citations

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    Bernhard Schmid

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    17 publications · 5.7K citations

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    Peter B. Reich

    University of Minnesota, United States

    14 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. ES
    Ernst‐Detlef Schulze

    Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany

    14 publications · 4.6K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    55 h-index

    291 publications

    26.7K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    33 h-index

    262 publications

    17.4K citations

  3. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    33 h-index

    87 publications

    11.7K citations

  4. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    30 h-index

    96 publications

    22.6K citations

  5. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

    Leipzig, Germany

    28 h-index

    100 publications

    16.1K citations

  6. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

    Marseille, France

    28 h-index

    97 publications

    8.4K citations

  7. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    27 h-index

    64 publications

    21.3K citations

  8. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    27 h-index

    71 publications

    27.1K citations

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  1. Ecology

    89 publications · 11.7K citations

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  3. Oikos

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  4. Global Change Biology

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  5. Journal of Ecology

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