PAPER: Recovery of functional diversity with...
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3618
The recovery of functional diversity with restoration
February 2022
O'Brien SA, Dehling DM, Tylianakis JM 2022. The recovery of functional diversity with restoration. Ecology 103(3): e3618.
ABSTRACT
Ecological restoration aims at recovering biodiversity in degraded ecosystems, and it is commonly assessed via species richness. However, it is unclear whether increasing species richness in a site also recovers its functional diversity (FD), which has been shown to be a better representation of ecosystem functioning. We conducted a quantitative synthesis of 30 restoration projects and tested whether restoration improves FD. We compared actively and passively restored sites with degraded and reference sites with respect to four key measures of FD (functional richness, evenness, dispersion, and turnover) and two measures of species diversity (richness and evenness). We separately analyzed longitudinal studies (which monitor degraded, reference, and restored sites through time) and space-for-time substitutions (which compare at one point in time degraded and reference sites with restored sites of different ages).
KEYWORDS
active; biodiversity; linear mixed-effects models; passive recovery; traits
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