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functional rarity: a standalone construct

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Biodiversity and ecosystem function

the combination of a species' scarcity with the uniqueness of its traits, used to identify species whose loss removes distinct functions.

In biodiversity and ecosystem function, functional rarity refers to the combination of a species' scarcity with the uniqueness of its traits, used to identify species whose loss removes distinct functions. This meaning comes from Violle (2017) in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.[1]

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References

Violle, C., Thuiller, W., Mouquet, N., Munoz, F., Kraft, N. J. B., Cadotte, M. W., Livingstone, S. W., & Mouillot, D. (2017). Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 32(5), 356-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.02.002

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