Assessing the resilience of ecosystem functions in Mediterranean wetlands

2018

Research has shown the importance of considering functional diversity when constructing planetary safety boundaries for biodiversity. This is becoming a highly debated topic within the scientific community and it is increasingly getting attention in the policy arena. Within this framework, functional traits would possibly be a good measure of the change in biosphere integrity or – in other words – biodiversity loss. Although several attempts have been made at local scale for measuring a boundary based on functional traits, establishing indicators to estimate the resilience of ecosystem functioning at broader scales is a challenging endeavour. Data availability restricts our ability to opera…