The idea behind multimetric indices is to integrate information from several metrics to provide a general classification of water bodies without losing the particularities of each individual metric. Historically, multimetric ...

The Atlantic Forest domain, one of the 25 world's hotspots for biodiversity, has experienced dramatic changes in its landscape. While the loss of species diversity is well documented, functional diversity has not received ...

The Atlantic Forest domain, one of the 25 world's hotspots for biodiversity, has experienced dramatic changes in its landscape. While the loss of species diversity is well documented, functional diversity has not received ...

Here we analysed the taxonomic and functional diversity of microcrustaceans along a horizontal gradient from the littoral to pelagic zones of a marginal lake. We hypothesized that in the littoral zone, occupied by high ...

Questions: Niche complementarity has been proposed as the underlying mechanism for optimizing resource use of plants in diverse ecosystems, usually associated with their functional traits and not with the species number ...

Natural habitats have drastically regressed due to rapid changes in land-use during recent decades, generating a decrease in species diversity. In light of natural habitat destruction worldwide, there is a need to adopt ...

Functional diversity is the component of diversity that influences ecosystem dynamics, stability, productivity, nutrient balance, and other aspects of ecosystem functioning. We evaluate the spatio-temporal variability of ...