Functional diversity: from organisms to the ecosystem

The objective 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 the ecosystem). The lessons aim to explain how to approach this functional facet of diversity for the 10+ million organisms present on the surface of the planet, by taking examples in very or slightly anthropized environments.

What functional diversity is at different levels of organization 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