Escudero Adrián, Valladares Fernando
Área Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biología y Geología, ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain.
LINCGlobal, Department of Biogeography and Global Change, National Museum of Natural History, MNCN, CSIC, Serrano 115 bis, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
Oecologia. 2016 Apr;180(4):919-22. doi: 10.1007/s00442-016-3578-5. Epub 2016 Feb 20.
Functional traits are the center of recent attempts to unify key ecological theories on species coexistence and assembling in populations and communities. While the plethora of studies on the role of functional traits to explain patterns and dynamics of communities has rendered a complex picture due to the idiosyncrasies of each study system and approach, there is increasing evidence on their actual relevance when aspects such as different spatial scales, intraspecific variability and demography are considered.
功能性状是近期旨在统一关于物种共存以及种群和群落中物种聚集的关键生态理论的尝试的核心。尽管大量关于功能性状在解释群落格局和动态方面作用的研究，由于每个研究系统和方法的特性而呈现出一幅复杂的图景，但当考虑不同空间尺度、种内变异性和种群统计学等方面时，越来越多的证据表明它们具有实际相关性。
