#Functionaldiversity
#TansleyInsight: The path toward a unified trait space: synthesizing plant #FunctionalDiversity

Carlos Carmona & Eleonora Beccari
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November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity.

Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables.

With @e-beccari.bsky.social
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#PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity
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September 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I'm working on the functional diversity of zooplankton. I feel it's not accurate because results depend on the traits we choose,which can be subjective. I wonder if there’s an issue with functional diversity, or am I just at the beginning and haven’t grasped it yet? #Zooplankton #FunctionalDiversity
March 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
🦋🌙Functional and phylogenetic beta diversity response of nocturnal moth assemblages to land-use intensity in grasslands and forests

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#BiodiversityExploratories #FunctionalDiversity #LandUseIntensityGradient #Lepidoptera #PhylogeneticDiversity #TemperateForests #Grasslands

July 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Chun-Feng Gu et al. investigated how the effect of #TaxonomicDiversity on aboveground biomass is related to shifts in the roles of #FunctionalDiversity and #FunctionalDominance of five functional traits.

#Diversity–biomassRelationship

@mapjournals.bsky.social

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October 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The tools we use in this paper can be particularly useful for people working with multidimensional trait spaces, which can be quite challenging

Congrats to Eleonora! #PlantEcology #FunctionalDiversity
October 26, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Understanding the various indices in functional diversity is a bit tricky, and the more I read, the more confused I get 😄

#functionaldiversity #biodiversity #ecology
February 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🚨Publication alert🚨Across 21 #forest 🧪🍁 experiments (84k #trees, 89 spp.), productivity ⬆️ with🌳 #richness (saturating) and variability ⬇️. #Functionaldiversity mediated gains; #structuraldiversity trended ⬇️. Selection effects dominate. Acquisitive, low-WD species benefited. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Diversity in Resource Use Strategies Promotes Productivity in Young Planted Tree Species Mixtures
By analyzing data from over 83,000 trees in 21 experiments across five continents, we found that forests with more species were more productive and had more stable growth. Productivity was driven mai...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Ruiting Wang et al. explored the threshold-dependent relationship between #FunctionalDiversity and tree species #EcologicalMultifunctionality along urban and suburban gradients and their environmental regulatory mechanisms.

#EnvironmentalChange

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November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🌱 Elisabeth Forrestel contributed to an article on how plant traits shape #ecosystems. A study on functional diversity metrics shows insights into trait numbers, correlations and ecosystem dynamics.
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#Ecology #Biodiversity #FunctionalDiversity
The impact of trait number and correlation on functional diversity metrics in real-world ecosystems
The use of trait-based approaches to understand ecological communities has increased in the past two decades because of their promise to preserve more information about community structure than taxono...
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January 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Great to present our work on biological traits with benthic foraminifera for management purpose in the eastern English Channel @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social @LifeMahraProject @AgenceEauArtoisPicardie @AgenceEauSeineNormandie #functionaldiversity #alphadiversity
March 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Puerto Rico is taking a monumental step toward supporting families with special needs by proposing extended maternity and paternity leave—will this change the landscape of caregiving?

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#US #PaternitySupport #CitizenPortal #FunctionalDiversity #MaternityLeave
Puerto Rico Senate Proposes Extended Maternity Leave for Parents of Children with Disabilities
Senate Bill 87 seeks to enhance maternity and paternity leave for parents with special needs children.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Excited to share our work also on #Bluesky 🦋

🌱 Our work demonstrates how a unified framework for measuring trait and spectral diversity can effectively approximate functional patterns in plant communities 🛰️

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#Ecology #RemoteSensing #FunctionalDiversity
Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities
In this study, we estimated spectral and functional diversity in a common framework encompassing all their multivariate components. Our findings indicate that spectral diversity accurately captures t...
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November 24, 2024 at 12:28 PM
🚨Benthic foraminifera making their way to Biological trait analysis. More to come soon with study cases. #foramrock #benthicecology #functionaldiversity @agenceeauartoispicardie @agenceeauseinenormandie @PHCMaïmonide @univlille.bsky.social

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February 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I was thinking about language extinction and its importance. Turns out, just like functional richness in ecology, linguistics has a similar concept. Fascinating!
(In linguistics, FD can describe the range of cognitive, cultural, and communicative functions)
#bidiversity #functionaldiversity
February 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Hot off the press 🔥 New Ecological Monographs paper shows why, when and how to include intraspecific trait variability to enhance functional diversity research. Huge shout out to Facundo Palacio for his vision and leadership. Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
#traits #functionaldiversity 📏🌐
Integrating intraspecific trait variability in functional diversity: An overview of methods and a guide for ecologists
Variability in traits within species (intraspecific trait variability; ITV) has attracted increased interest in functional ecology, as it can profoundly influence the detection of functional trait pa....
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July 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Fa un any gravàvem aquest vídeo per als Premis Compromís Social Banc Santander (2023) de l'@uji.es. Us el deixe per ací:

A year ago we recorded this video. Have a look:

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#research #specialneeds #functionaldiversity #mentalhealth
Premis compromís social. Banc Santander · 2023: Alicia Franch i Anabel Martínez
YouTube video by Universitat Jaume I
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February 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
How does #biodiversity control 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks?
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
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May 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
These species, though rare, have unique traits that influence ecosystem functioning. Their disappearance can disrupt key ecological processes. #FunctionalDiversity #Amphibians
March 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The what, how, and why of trait-based analyses in ecology vist.ly/3n3vkiy #FunctionalDiversity #Patterns #Processes
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
New article published in Ecology's Section
Functional diversity of the cotton crops arthrofauna
doi: doi.org/10.12741/ebr...
#Arthropodfauna #Cottonagroecosystem #Functionaldiversity #Sustainablemanagement #brazil #entomobrasilis #entomology #insect
August 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Effects of straw return on soil carbon and nitrogen pools and on the diversity of microbial structures and functions

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10976

#StrawReturn #Soil #Carbon #Nitrogen #StructuralDiversity #FunctionalDiversity #SoilMicroorganisms
March 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🔬 New #Ecotron article just published in SBB! Nesting #microcosms inside #mesocosms reveal how #FunctionalDiversity of macrodetritivores affects litter mass loss. 🍂🪱 Spoiler: it matters!
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@cnrsecologie.bsky.social & the #Ecotron team!

#Biodiversity
July 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM