Functional diversity: from organisms to ecosystems

The objective of this EU is to demonstrate that biological diversity is functional:

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

2) at different organizational scales (from organisms to ecosystems). The lessons aim to explain how to approach this functional aspect of diversity for the more than 10 million organisms present on the planet's surface, using examples from highly and minimally anthropized environments.

What functional diversity is at different levels of organization and the conceptual frameworks that have been developed around this concept.

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