The impact of trait number and correlation on functional diversity metrics in real-world ecosystems

• Timothy Ohlert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy Ohlert, Kaitlin Kimmel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: tohlert@colostate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6976-5114

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• Kaitlin Kimmel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy Ohlert, Kaitlin Kimmel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Water Security Center, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America

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• Meghan Avolio,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Cynthia Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell, WA, United States of America

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• Elisabeth Forrestel,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

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• Benjamin P. Gerstner,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0884-6142

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• Sarah E. Hobbie,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

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• Peter Reich,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America, Institute for Global Change Biology and School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith South, NSW, Australia

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• Kenneth D. Whitney,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

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• Kimberly Komatsu

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States of America

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