Functional diversity indices that summarize trait variation between organisms within communities are widely used tools in community ecology. Although intraspecific trait variation is often an important component of the total variation, traditional functional diversity indices neglect this component. Recently, Carmona et al. proposed a framework to overcome this limitation based on fitting trait probability distributions (TPDs). Unfortunately, this article does not contain any guidance on pooling data before fitting TPDs.

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最佳数据合并，以可靠地估计特征概率分布

总结社区内生物之间的特征变异的功能多样性指数是社区生态学中广泛使用的工具。尽管种内性状变异通常是总变异的重要组成部分，但传统的功能多样性指数却忽略了这一组成部分。最近，Carmona等人。提出了一个基于拟合特征概率分布（TPD）来克服此限制的框架。不幸的是，本文没有包含在拟合TPD之前合并数据的任何指导。