Functional ecology

Question 1

What is biodiversity?

Answer 1

Variability among living organisms from all sources; diversity within species and between species and ecosystems

Question 2

What are biodiversity components?

Answer 2

Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic

Question 3

What is functional diversity?

Answer 3

Components of biodiversity that influence how an ecosystem operates or functions.

Question 4

What is functional redoundancy?

Answer 4

Number of taxonomically distinct species that exhibit similar ecological functions

Question 5

What is ecological resilience?

Answer 5

Assumption that an ecosystem can exist in an alternative stable state

Question 6

What does selection of many functional traits imply?

Answer 6

Low redundancy

Question 7

what does selection of few functional traits imply?

Answer 7

High redundancy

Question 8

Why is body size important?

Answer 8

Related to every organismal function, including metabolic, ontogenic, allometric and ecological attributes. It is also a primary driver of ecological processes

Question 9

Trait biogeography

Answer 9

Traits can be more efficient or suitable in certain climatic/environmental conditions

Question 10

What drives ecosystem and biodiversity degradation?

Answer 10

Natural variability and anthropogenic impacts