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There was no significant difference in mean functional richness among the four types of habitat using the FRD (H = 4.65, P = 0.19), but significant differences were found using the FRV estimate (F = 3.506, P = 0.035, df = 20) and only the values for closed submontane scrub and open crassicaule scrub were statistically different (Q = 4.33, P = 0.03), the other combinations were not (P>0.10).

When a functional group was observed in the microcosm, but was not taken in the sub-sample (28 out of 180 samples), it was included in the calculation of mean functional group richness but was omitted from abundance estimates.

As noted above, we observed strong decreases in community variability and mean functional group variability with increasing functional group richness irrespective of exposure to environmental stress (Fig. 1).

Habitat loss and degradation have the potential to alter the species richness functional diversity relationship decreasing both species richness and functional richness, and increasing functional biotic homogenization.

Species richness was one, but not the only driver of functional richness in our system.

In addition to a gradient of species and functional richness, two experimentally manipulated environmental changes increase abiotic and biotic novelty.

The density of individuals increased significantly during the experiment, in contrast to the taxonomic and functional richness.

We found a non-saturating relationship between species richness and both functional richness and community-weighted specialization, suggesting low functional redundancy.

Indeed we observed that persistence of communities is strongly related to species richness at low functional richness and little related to species richness at high functional richness.

The effect of taxon richness, however, interacts with another aspect of diversity, functional richness.

The extremes of this continuum would be i) 1 species per functional group when functional richness is high relative to species richness and ii) many species in only 1 functional group when functional richness is minimal.