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	Λειτουργική Ποικιλότητα	Διαχωρισμός της Βήτα Ποικιλότητας
Πεδίο	Οικολογία	Οικολογία
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2008	2010
Δημιουργός	Olivier Mouillot	Andres Baselga
Τύπος	trait-based diversity analysis	community differentiation analysis
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Villéger, S., Mason, N. W., & Mouillot, D. (2008). New multidimensional functional diversity indices for a multifaceted framework in functional ecology. Ecology, 89(8), 2290-2301.	Baselga, A. (2010). Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19(1), 134-143.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	functional traits, trait diversity, ecological niche, functional space	beta diversity, species turnover, nestedness, community dissimilarity
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	Functional diversity quantifies the range and abundance distribution of functional traits (morphology, physiology, behavior) among species in a community. Developed by Mouillot and colleagues (2008), functional diversity indices measure how different species are in their ecological roles and resource use strategies. Unlike species richness (number of species), functional diversity captures the breadth of ecological strategies, predicting ecosystem function and stability.	Beta diversity partitioning quantifies how species composition differs among sites, decomposing community dissimilarity into two components: species turnover (replacement of species across sites) and nestedness (loss of species from species-rich sites). Developed by Baselga (2010), this framework reveals whether sites differ because they have different species (turnover) or because some sites are subsets of others (nestedness). This distinction has ecological and conservation implications: turnover suggests environmental heterogeneity or speciation, while nestedness suggests habitat loss or extinction.