Session

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Trait-based approaches in coral reef ecology: from func8onal ecology to management

Assessing func+onal diversity

from traits to mul+dimensional indices
Sébas4en Villéger, Eva Maire and David Mouillot
Marine biodiversity lab, Montpellier, France
What is func4onal diversity ?
The facet of biodiversity that accounts for the biological a1ributes of organisms linked to their fitness or ecological roles, i.e. func4onal traits

Why measuring func4onal diversity ?

Anthropogenic Func4onal diversity Ecological Ecosystem

Environment
disturbances of organisms processes services

1) Sampling assemblages 2) Measuring func4onal traits 3) Building a func4onal space

Your ques4on + Your exper4se (Maire et al. 2015, Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.)
Assemblage Species Distance Species
a) Which func8onal traits
Sa Sb … SN matrix Sa Sb … SN
matrix
= b) How to measure them
Sa Euclidean a) Compu4ng
A1 c) How to code them
Assemblages

func4onal distance

Species
A2 Presence/absence Species Sb or
Number of individuals pool Trait Func4onal traits … Gower’s between all pairs of
… matrix T1 T2 … TT distance species
Coverage/Biomass SN
AC Sa
PCA UPGMA
Species

Sb PCoA Ward
Trait values b) Compu4ng all
…
Mul4dimensional func4onal spaces
SN Dendrogram
space
PC2
PC3
4) Compu4ng complementary func4onal diversity indices Sc
assessing distribu+on of species (and of their dominance) in the func+onal Sa
Sb
space for each assemblage (Mouillot et al. 2013, Trends Evol. Ecol.) Sd SN Sa Sb Sc Sd SN
PC1
Species coordinates c) Selec4ng the best func4onal space
according to an objec+ve quality criteria
Indices
Diversity
matrix FRic FEve FDiv
A1
Assemblages

A2 Indices values
…
AC
Tutorial and func4ons available at:

h@p://villeger.sebas+en.free.fr/FD.html

5) Compu4ng complementary func4onal dissimilarity indices Contact: sebas+en.villeger@cnrs.fr
assessing overlap in the func+onal space between assemblages (Villéger et al. 2013,
Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.)
Dissimilarity Assemblages
matrix A1 A2 … AC
A1
Assemblages

A2 Dissimilarity
… values
AC

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