Concept information
This concept has been deprecated.
Preferred term
functional diversity
Is replaced by
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
Entry terms
- FD
- functional diversities
- functionally diverse
- function diverse
- function diversity
- function diversive
Scope note
- MS Academic Keywords
URI
http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0475
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