How Biodiversity, Climate and Landscape Drive Functional Redundancy of British Butterflies.

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity promotes the functioning of ecosystems, and functional redundancy safeguards this functioning against environmental changes. However, what drives functional redundancy remains unclear. We analyzed taxonomic diversity, functional diversity (richness and β-diversity) and functional redundancy patterns of British butterflies. We explored the effect of temperature and landscape-related variables on richness and redundancy using generalized additive models, and on β-diversity using generalized dissimilarity models. The species richness-functional richness relationship was saturating, indicating functional redundancy in species-rich communities. Assemblages did not deviate from random expectations regarding functional richness. Temperature exerted a significant effect on all diversi

SUBMITTER: Lazarina M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10531656 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature