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Preferred term

functional diversity

Is replaced by

functional diversity

Definition

[Owen L. Petchey] Functional diversity is an important component of biodiversity, yet in comparison to taxonomicdiversity, methods of quantifying functional diversity are less well developed... , "[Mark S. Poos] Functional diversity is an important concept in community ecology because it captures information onfunctional traits absent in measures of species diversity. One popular method of measuringfunctional diversity is the dendrogram-based method, FD... , "[Owen L. Petchey] Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems...

Broader concept

deprecated concept

Entry terms

FD
function diverse
function diversity
function diversive
functional diversities
functionally diverse

Scope note

MS Academic Keywords

Creator

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-3997

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0475

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Created 8/3/16, last modified 3/21/22

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