Minding The Gap: Range Size And Economic Use Drive Functional Trait Data Shortfall In The Atlantic Forest

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Petisco-Souza, Ana Carolina, Fernanda Thiesen Brum, Marcilio-Silva, Vinícius, Zwiener, Victor P, Zanella, Andressa, Dias, Arildo S, González-Melo, Andrés, Jansen, Steven, Mazzochini, Guilherme G, Niinemets, Ülo, Pillar, Valério D, Sosinski, Enio, Marques, Márcia C M, Carlucci, Marcos B
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 30.10.2020; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Edition: 1.1
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Coverage; Ecology; Forests; Protected areas; Species; Atlantic Forest; biodiversity-ecosystem functioning; Raunkiaeran shortfall; functional dominance; functional traits; functional dispersion; missing data; biodiversity shortfall

ABSTRACT Biodiversity shortfalls are knowledge gaps that may result from uneven sampling through time and space and human interest biases. Gaps in data of functional traits of species may add uncertainty in functional diversity and structure measures and hinder inference on ecosystem functioning and...