A new measure of functional evenness and some of its properties

摘要: Functional evenness is increasingly considered an important facet of functional diversity that sheds light on the complex relationships between community assembly and ecosystem functioning. Nonetheless, in spite its relevant role for functioning, only a few measures have been proposed. In this paper we introduce new measure reflects regularity distribution species abundances, together with their pairwise dissimilarities. To show how proposed works, focus changes calculated from Grime’s classification plant strategies as competitors (C), stress-tolerators (S) ruderals (R) along post-fire successional gradient temperate chestnut forests southern Switzerland.