Bootstrapping outperforms community‐weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions

Bootstrapping outperforms community‐weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions

Abstract Estimating phenotypic distributions of populations and communities is central to many questions in ecology and evolution. These distributions can be characterized by their moments (mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis) or diversity metrics (e.g. functional richness). Typically, such moment...

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Main Authors: Brian S. Maitner, Aud H. Halbritter, Richard J. Telford, Tanya Strydom, Julia Chacon, Christine Lamanna, Lindsey L. Sloat, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Julie Messier, Nick Rasmussen, Francesco Pomati, Ewa Merz, Vigdis Vandvik, Brian J. Enquist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-10-01
Series:Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
body size
community ecology
community‐weighted mean
functional ecology
functional traits
nonparametric bootstrapping
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14160

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https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14160

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