Diversity of response and effect traits provides complementary information about avian community dynamics linked to ecological function

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creat ive Commo ns Attri bution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2021 The Authors. Functional Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society 1School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK 2British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, UK 3Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 4Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Berkshire, UK

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