These results highlight the importance of considering functional diversity and ecological redundancy, in addition to species diversity, for assessing and predicting the effects of OA on marine communities.
Finally, we considered that functional diversity might result from the utilization of different paralogs of the accessory proteins, BAF60 (SWSN-2.1 and SWSN-2.2) and BAF45 (PHF-10 and DPFF-1), as has been proposed for mammalian BAF complexes (Ho and Crabtree 2010).
Considering the potential functional diversity of PTR members associated with nutrient transport and only a few PTR family members have been described in higher plants, it was timely and quite relevant for us to characterize the rice PTR family.
However, PDIs from photosynthetic organisms display an important structural and functional diversity considering their association to specific protein domains.
Considering the structural and functional diversity of DNA glycosylases, however, there are likely to be different translocation mechanisms, variably involving features of tracking, diffusion, and hopping on the DNA (Blainey et al. 2009; Steinacher and Schär 2005; Friedman and Stivers 2010).
Simulation analyses are then performed to explore optimization strategies that consider production magnitude and functional diversity within polycultures.
Therefore, in recent years the focus has turned from SR towards functional diversity, which considers components that influence ecosystem function rather than taxonomic units [ 3].
Our findings indicate that total fouling diversity decreased with increasing copper pollution, whether taxonomic or functional diversity is considered.
Our findings indicate that total fouling diversity is sensitive to metal pollution, whether taxonomic or functional diversity is considered.
We outline future challenges and research opportunities — interpreting past pollen-richness patterns, estimating richness from macrofossils, studying pollen richness at different scales, partitioning diversity and estimating beta diversity, estimating false, hidden, and dark richness, and considering past functional and phylogenetic diversity from pollen data.
Plant life-form diversity can be considered a coarse surrogate for the functional diversity of a plant community [38].
