Using specimens collected off the coast of North Carolina, scientists have demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil record.

Alongside climate change, biodiversity loss caused by human activity is one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. A study conducted at the Research Center for Ecological Change, ...

“We wanted to find out how large the temporal changes in functional diversity are across different regions of the Earth, and whether simple data collection methods can provide the information we need.

Plant species can fulfill different functions within an ecosystem, even if they are closely related to each other. This surprising conclusion was reached by a global analysis of around 1.7 million ...

The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity -- a measure of the range of different roles and ...

Machine generated contents note: 1. Challenges and opportunities in the measurement and assessment of biological diversity / Brian J. McGill -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. State of the field -- 1.3.