1. Functional diversity (FD) is an important concept for studies of both ecosystem processes and community assembly, so it is important to understand the behaviour of common metrics used to express it. 2. Data from an existing study of the relationship between FD and environmental drivers were used to simulate the impact of a progressive failure to measure the traits of all the species prese…
Summary 1. The search for appropriate management strategies to control invasive plants is an important theme in environmental management. However, the recovery of the resident community species complement does not necessarily respond predictably to restoration efforts. Increasing restoration success requires an understanding of the resistance and resilience of the invaded community and the…
Questions: What is the significance of climate and land-use management as determinants of plant species composition of Scotland’s soft coasts, and how are these determinants spatially scaled? What is the relative contribution of different community assembly processes in governing the coastal plant communities of an important national resource? Location: Scotland, UK. Methods: We used na…