C. P. Carmona

"Flower power": how flowering affects spectral diversity metrics and their relationship with plant diversity

This study evaluates how flowering affects spectral diversity metrics and their relationship with plant diversity in grasslands, finding significant but low-explained variance in the link when using categorical metrics.

funspace: an R package to build, analyze and plot functional trait spaces

funspace is an R package that simplifies building, analyzing, and visualizing functional trait spaces using bivariate and PCA-based methods.

Plant spectral diversity from high-resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities.

The paper uses high-resolution multispectral imagery to show that spectral diversity can approximate functional diversity patterns in coastal dune plant communities across different spatial scales.

Trait diversity metrics can perform well with highly incomplete datasets

The paper evaluates trait diversity metrics' robustness to data incompleteness using simulated missing data and imputation methods, finding that imputation improves reliability even with high missingness.

Functional traits trade-offs define plant population stability worldwide

The paper examines global plant population stability by linking trait trade-offs to inter-annual variability in species abundance across multiple ecosystems.

Anthropogenic impacts on threatened species erode functional diversity in turtles and crocodilians

The paper assesses functional diversity loss in turtles and crocodilians due to anthropogenic threats, finding habitat disturbance causes twice the functional diversity loss compared to other threats.

An updated framework to account for inter-individual variability when quantifying phenotypic variation

The paper introduces a new measure, the Phenotypic Dissimilarity Index (PhD), to better quantify phenotypic variation by accounting for within-population trait variability and provides an R function for its calculation.

Tetrapod diversity facets in jeopardy during the Anthropocene

The paper assesses how past and recent human impacts affect tetrapod diversity using a multifaceted index, showing that historical agricultural expansion has had a significant legacy effect on biodiversity.

Including intraspecific trait variability to avoid distortion of functional diversity and ecological inference: lessons from natural assemblages

The paper assesses how intraspecific trait variability affects functional diversity indices and ecological inferences across plant and ant communities.

Mycorrhizal symbiosis alleviates plant drought stress within and across plant generations via plasticity

This study shows that mycorrhizal symbiosis induces both within- and transgenerational phenotypic plasticity in plants under drought stress, improving their ability to cope with environmental stress.

Mapping extinction risk in the global functional spectra across the tree of life

The paper maps extinction risk across global functional spectra of species, finding that larger, slower-living species are more threatened and their loss would cause significant reorganization in ecological strategies.

Estimating probabilistic dark diversity based on the hypergeometric distribution

This paper introduces a hypergeometric-based method to estimate probabilistic dark diversity, outperforming existing methods in simulations and real datasets.

Trait plasticity of intensive pasture species due to growth in mixture across seasons and nutrient addition levels

This study examines how traits of pasture species change with growth in mixture, nitrogen addition, and season, finding seasonal dependencies in trait plasticity effects on community-level trait means.