Functional Diversity: An Epistemic Roadmap. (4th September 2019)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Functional Diversity: An Epistemic Roadmap. (4th September 2019)
- Main Title:
- Functional Diversity: An Epistemic Roadmap
- Authors:
- Malaterre, Christophe
Dussault, Antoine C
Mermans, Ely
Barker, Gillian
Beisner, Beatrix E
Bouchard, Frédéric
Desjardins, Eric
Handa, I Tanya
Kembel, Steven W
Lajoie, Geneviève
Maris, Virginie
Munson, Alison D
Odenbaugh, Jay
Poisot, Timothée
Shapiro, B Jesse
Suttle, Curtis A - Abstract:
- Abstract: Functional diversity holds the promise of understanding ecosystems in ways unattainable by taxonomic diversity studies. Underlying this promise is the intuition that investigating the diversity of what organisms actually do (i.e., their functional traits) within ecosystems will generate more reliable insights into the ways these ecosystems behave, compared to considering only species diversity. But this promise also rests on several conceptual and methodological (i.e., epistemic) assumptions that cut across various theories and domains of ecology. These assumptions should be clearly addressed, notably for the sake of an effective comparison and integration across domains, and for assessing whether or not to use functional diversity approaches for developing ecological management strategies. The objective of this contribution is to identify and critically analyze the most salient of these assumptions. To this aim, we provide an epistemic roadmap that pinpoints these assumptions along a set of historical, conceptual, empirical, theoretical, and normative dimensions.
- Is Part Of:
- BioScience. Volume 69:Number 10(2019:Oct.)
- Journal:
- BioScience
- Issue:
- Volume 69:Number 10(2019:Oct.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 69, Issue 10 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 69
- Issue:
- 10
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0069-0010-0000
- Page Start:
- 800
- Page End:
- 811
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09-04
- Subjects:
- functional trait -- biodiversity -- ecosystem function -- community assembly -- functional diversity
Life sciences -- Periodicals
Life sciences -- Research -- Periodicals
Life sciences -- United States -- Periodicals
Life sciences -- Government policy -- United States -- Periodicals
Biology -- Periodicals
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- 10.1093/biosci/biz089 ↗
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- English
- ISSNs:
- 0006-3568
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