Integrating Hyperspectral Imaging, Plant Functional Diversity, and Soil-Lithology to Uncover Mountainscape Disturbance Dynamics Induced by Landsliding by Ana Kilgore, Carla Restrepo

“…In particular, air- and spaceborne hyperspectral data are making possible the measurement of plant-level functional traits to investigate ecosystem function and functional diversity in novel ways. In this review, we posit that these developments, together with similar ones on soils and lithologies, can help us understand relationships between functional diversity, ecosystem processes, and landsliding, and more broadly the disturbance dynamics of mountainscapes. …”
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Bacterial functional responses to environmental variability: a case study in three distinct mountain lakes within a single watershed by Silvena Boteva, Marieta Stanachkova, Ivan Traykov, Boyanka Angelova, Anelia Kenarova

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Measuring overall functional diversity by aggregating its multiple facets: Functional richness, biomass evenness, trait evenness and dispersion by Laurie Anne Wojcik, Ursula Gaedke, Ellen vanVelzen, Toni Klauschies

“…Abstract Human activities induce environmental changes, which can affect individuals' traits thereby leading to changes in functional diversity and finally in ecosystem functioning. Measuring functional diversity is thus of utmost importance to understand the consequences of such activities on ecosystem functioning. …”
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Drivers of wild bee abundance and diversity in social-ecological landscapes by Mario V. Balzan, Leticia De Santis, Ahlam Sentil, Denis Michez

“…Using four years of data, covering 204 sites, from a national monitoring dataset on plant-wild bee interactions in the Maltese Islands, this study examines the links between local and landscape habitat factors, wild bee abundance, species richness, and functional diversity. Functional diversity was assessed using multiple traits to calculate functional divergence, richness, evenness, and dispersion. …”
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Habitat fragmentation reduced plant functional diversity in the agro-pastoral ecotone of Inner Mongolia by Jiawei Yu, Yongzhi Yan, Guowei Wang, Qing Zhang

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Quantifying the functional composition and potential resilience hotspots across a large latitudinal and environmental gradient in South American forests by Xiongjie Deng, Danny E. Carvajal, Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert, Waira S. Machida, Alice Rosen, Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng, David Galbraith, Sandra Díaz, Yadvinder Malhi, Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez

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