mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity

Type Article
Date 2022-01
Language English
Author(s) Magneville CamilleORCID1, Loiseau NicolasORCID1, Albouy CamilleORCID4, Casajus NicolasORCID5, Claverie Thomas1, 6, Escalas ArthurORCID1, Leprieur Fabien1, 2, Maire EvaORCID3, Mouillot DavidORCID1, 2, Villéger SébastienORCID1
Affiliation(s) 1 : MARBEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD Montpellier, France
2 : Inst. Univ. de France Paris ,France
3 : Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster Univ. Lancaster, UK
4 : IFREMER, INRAE, Inst Agro, DECOD Ecosyst Dynam & Sustainabil, Agrocampus Ouest, Lorient, France
5 : FRB‐CESAB Montpellier,France
6 : Centre Univ. de Formation et de Recherche de Mayotte ,France
Source Ecography (0906-7590) (Wiley), 2022-01 , Vol. 2022 , N. 1 , P. e05904 (15p.)
DOI 10.1111/ecog.05904
WOS© Times Cited 77
Keyword(s) alpha-diversity, beta-diversity, functional entities, functional space, functional traits, Hill numbers
Abstract

unctional diversity (FD), the diversity of organism attributes that relates to their interactions with the abiotic and biotic environment, has been increasingly used for the last two decades in ecology, biogeography and conservation. Yet, FD has many facets and their estimations are not standardized nor embedded in a single tool. mFD (multifaceted functional diversity) is an R package that uses matrices of species assemblages and species trait values as building blocks to compute most FD indices. mFD is firstly based on two functions allowing the user to summarize trait and assemblage data. Then it calculates trait-based distances between species pairs, informs the user whether species have to be clustered into functional entities and finally computes multidimensional functional space. To let the user choose the most appropriate functional space for computing multidimensional functional diversity indices, two mFD functions allow assessing and illustrating the quality of each functional space. Next, mFD provides 6 core functions to calculate 16 existing FD indices based on trait-based distances, functional entities or species position in a functional space. The mFD package also provides graphical functions based on the ggplot library to illustrate FD values through customizable and high-resolution plots of species distribution among functional entities or in a multidimensional space. All functions include internal validation processes to check for errors in data formatting which return detailed error messages. To facilitate the use of mFD framework, we built an associated website hosting five tutorials illustrating the use of all the functions step by step.

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Magneville Camille, Loiseau Nicolas, Albouy Camille, Casajus Nicolas, Claverie Thomas, Escalas Arthur, Leprieur Fabien, Maire Eva, Mouillot David, Villéger Sébastien (2022). mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity. Ecography, 2022(1), e05904 (15p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05904 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00740/85252/