Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation

• Maria Májeková ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Májeková, Taavi Paal, Nichola S. Plowman

  Affiliations Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Taavi Paal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Májeková, Taavi Paal, Nichola S. Plowman

  Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Nichola S. Plowman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Májeková, Taavi Paal, Nichola S. Plowman

  * E-mail: nichola.plowman@gmail.com

  Affiliations Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Michala Bryndová,

  Affiliations Institute of Soil Biology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Liis Kasari,

  Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Anna Norberg,

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Matthias Weiss,

  Affiliation Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Tom R. Bishop,

  Affiliations Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Sarah H. Luke,

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Katerina Sam,

  Affiliations Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet,

  Affiliations Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Area de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Ciencias, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/ Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, Spain

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• Jan Lepš,

  Affiliations Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Lars Götzenberger,

  Affiliation Institute of Botany, Biology Centre CAS, Třeboň, Czech Republic

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• Francesco de Bello

  Affiliations Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Institute of Botany, Biology Centre CAS, Třeboň, Czech Republic

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