The influence of functional group diversity on food web structure is less well known than that of biodiversity. Analysing species interactions in a network of salt marsh islands, Montoya et al ...

We suggest that relatively few species attributes are of overriding importance to the structure of benthic marine algal communities and that these are often shared among taxonomically distant species.

1. Functional traits are increasingly used to investigate community structure, ecosystem functioning or to classify species into functional groups. These functional traits are expected to be variable ...