KWTraitsSee Novack-Gottshall (2007: especially online Supplementary Appendix A at www.ben.edu/faculty/pnovack-gottshall/2007_Novack-Gottshall_Ecospace.pdf) for definition each functional trait, justifications, explanations, and examples. Novack-Gottshall (2007: Supplementary Appendix B; In press: Supplementary Appendix A) provides examples of how traits were coded using inferences derived from functional morphology, body size, ichnology, in situ preservation, biotic associations recording direct interactions, and interpretation of geographic and depositional environment patterns.
Indeterminate taxa (e.g., trepostome bryozoan indet. or Platystrophia sp.) that occurred within individual samples within these formations were excluded from the aggregate species pool unless their occurrence was the sole member of that taxon. Such indeterminate taxa and genera lacking a species identification were coded for a particular state only when all other members of that taxon within the Kope-Waynesville species pool unanimously shared that common state; otherwise, the state was listed as NA (missing).
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Villeger, S., P. M. Novack-Gottshall, and D. Mouillot. 2011. The multidimensionality of the niche reveals functional diversity changes in benthic marine biotas across geological time. Ecology Letters 14(6):561-568.