Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms

0353494 - BÚ 2011 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Vandewalle, M. - de Bello, Francesco - Berg, M. P. - Bolger, T. - Dolédec, S. - Dubs, F. - Feld, Ch. K. - Harrington, R. - Harrison, P. A. - Lavorel, S. - da Silva, P. M. - Moretti, M. - Niemelä, J. - Santos, P. - Sattler, T. - Sousa, J. P. - Sykes, M. T. - Vanbergen, A. J. - Woodcock, B. A.
Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms.
Biodiversity and Conservation. Roč. 19, č. 10 (2010), s. 2921-2947. ISSN 0960-3115. E-ISSN 1572-9710
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60050516
Keywords : Bioindicators * Birds * Biodiversity
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour
Impact factor: 2.146, year: 2010

Rigorous and widely applicable indicators of biodiversity are needed to monitor the responses of ecosystems to global change and design effective conservation schemes. Among the potential indicators of biodiversity, those based on the functional traits of species and communities are interesting because they can be generalized to similar habitats and can be assessed by relatively rapid field assessment across eco-regions. Functional traits, however, have as yet been rarely considered in current common monitoring schemes. Moreover, standardized procedures of trait measurement and analyses have almost exclusively been developed for plants but different approaches have been used for different groups of organisms. Here we review approaches using functional traits as biodiversity indicators focussing not on plants as usual but particularly on animal groups that are commonly considered in different biodiversity monitoring schemes
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