Thus functional equivalence provides a constancy of two sorts: first, the function is constant within a given value community insofar as it plays the same role for different members of the same value group, and second, the function can be a common feature across value groups.
In conclusion, our analyses present a dynamic GIT microbiota, capable of accommodating a significant turnover of taxa at different phylogenetic levels while maintaining a remarkable constancy in total functional capabilities.
Its practical implementation requires choosing and justifying assumptions regarding model specification, functional form of the hedonic function, parameter constancy or weighting.
Group-level compensation is most marked in the piscivorous, benthivorous, and amphipod-shrimp-feeding guilds, in which the abundance trajectories of individual species have fluctuated, but the relative constancy of the major functional guilds have remained relatively constant [3].
The leech heartbeat neural network is famous for its constancy in both architecture and functional output across animals.
Data were summarized by calculating species constancy, and alpha, beta, gamma diversity and functional richness.
