Functional diversity: from organisms to ecosystems

The aim of this EU is to show that biological diversity is functional:

1) for different groups of organisms: plants, insects, aquatic organisms, vertebrates, and

2) at different scales of organization (from organisms to ecosystems). The aim of the lessons is to explain how to approach this functional facet of diversity for the 10+ million organisms present on the planet's surface, taking examples from both highly and less anthropized environments.

What functional diversity is at different organizational levels, and the conceptual frameworks that have been developed around this notion.

why and how the functional approach to diversity has renewed the study of community structure