Towards a global characterization of ecosystem functional heterogeneity based on essential biodiversity variables

Néstor Fernández1, Miguel Fernández2, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura3, Pedro J Leitao4 and Carlos A Guerra2, (1)Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spanish National Research Council CSIC, Sevilla, Spain, (2)German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (3)University of Granada, Botany, Granada, Spain, (4)Humboldt University of Berlin, Geography, Berlin, Germany