Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

By Nathan J B Kraft, Ó. Godoy, J. Levine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models (2016, background): “…abiotic filtering may occur across microsites at the plot level, but be undetectable at the community level, where environmental heterogeneity and species niche differences promote coexistence and regeneration trait divergence within the community (Grubb 1977; Grime 2006; Kraft et al. 2015a).”
Linking root traits and competitive success in grassland species (2016, neutral): “Kraft et al. (2015) showed that single traits were poorly correlated to niche differences in the field, and that only combinations of traits could describe niche differences in multiple ecological dimensions.”
Linking modern coexistence theory and contemporary niche theory (2017, background): “…empirical studies to tackle this problem have largely documented weak or complex relationships between interacting species’ niche and fitness differences and their evolutionary relatedness or functional similarity (Narwani et al., 2013, Godoy et al., 2014, Kraft et al., 2015, Germain et al., 2016).”
Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth (2018, positive): “The rapid emergence and exponential growth of trait-based ecology in the past two decades has had resounding impacts in plant ecology in areas ranging from community assembly and coexistence theory (Kraft et al. 2015) to the determination of ecosystem multifunctionality (Gross et al. 2017).”
Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales. (2016, background): “Consequently, functional trait-based approaches have great potential to address a variety of ecological questions [6], including the impact of global change on biodiversity and ecosystem service delivery [3,7–9], ecological restoration [10], or the assembly of biological communities [4,5,11].”
Frontiers in root ecology: recent advances and future challenges (2018, result): “However, this idea has found only little support in recent empirical studies (Mommer et al. 2010; Hoekstra et al. 2015; Kraft et al. 2015), which instead highlight direct competitive interactions among species belowground.”
A structural approach for understanding multispecies coexistence (2017, background): “In prior work (Godoy et al. 2014, Kraft et al. 2015), we have quantified the pairwise interactions between 18 annual plant species in experimental gardens established in the field in California, USA.”