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Plant functional ecology

a functional diversity index measuring the abundance-weighted mean distance of species to the community trait centroid.

In plant functional ecology, functional dispersion refers to a functional diversity index measuring the abundance-weighted mean distance of species to the community trait centroid. This meaning comes from Laliberté (2010) in Ecology.[1]

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References

Laliberté, E., & Legendre, P. (2010). A distance‐based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits. Ecology, 91(1), 299-305. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-2244.1

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