Concepts

The tendency for related species to resemble each other more than expected by chance, measured by Blomberg's K and Pagel's lambda

Environmental processes that filter trait values admitted by changing abiotic and biotic conditions, maintaining trait distributions through phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation

A measure of the evolutionary history represented in an ecological community, calculated as the sum of branch lengths connecting species in a phylogenetic tree

Enhanced plant growth due to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations

Approach using organism functional traits to understand ecological patterns and predict responses to environmental change

Theory asserting that plant-pollinator interactions are neutral, random processes based on species abundances without considering traits or competitive dynamics