The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

By N. Swenson, Brian J. Enquist, Jason Pither, A. Kerkhoff, B. Boyle, M. Weiser, James J. Elser, William F. Fagan, Jimena Forero‐Montaña, N. Fyllas and 19 more. 2012

283 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecological Modeling

1. C. Violle
2. Peter B. Reich
3. G. Grenouillet
4. Brian J. Enquist
5. B. Blonder
6. Nathan J B Kraft
7. J. Levine
8. Brian J. McGill

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Peter B. Reich
2. C. Violle
3. Brian J. Enquist
4. David A. Wardle
5. J. H. C. Cornelissen
6. J. Levine
7. Barbara C. Schmid
8. Nathan J B Kraft

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Peter B. Reich
2. C. Violle
3. Brian J. Enquist
4. J. H. C. Cornelissen
5. Francesco de Bello
6. David A. Wardle
7. Nathan J B Kraft
8. G. T. Freschet

Citations in the corpus

• Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests (2014, background): “These traits are related to reproduction, growth and successional status 376 (Paquette & Messier, 2011; Swenson et al., 2012).”
• Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor (2015, background): “considerably since this time, playing an important role in many studies of community assembly, succession, invasion biology and biogeography (e.g. Weiher, Clarke & Keddy 1998; Richardson et al. 2000; Webb 2000; Cornwell, Schwilk & Ackerly 2006; Swenson et al. 2012; Whitfeld et al. 2012).”
• Being John Harper: Using evolutionary ideas to improve understanding of global patterns in plant traits (2018, background): “Species in warmer environments tend to make larger seeds (Amatangelo, Johnson, Rogers, & Waller, 2014; Dubuis et al., 2013; Gallagher & Leishman, 2012; Malhado et al., 2015; Moles et al., 2014; Šímová et al., 2015; Simpson, Richardson, & Laughlin 2016; Swenson et al., 2012; Swenson & Weiser, 2010).”
• How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces (2015, background): “Comparison of the SESs of functional diversity indices between species assemblages is commonly used to detect nonrandom assembly processes and map functional diversity patterns independently of differences in local species richness (e.g. Swenson et al., 2012).”
• Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species (2018, background): “Furthermore, in contrast to some previous studies and expectations, we found little evidence that harsh environments reduce the number of viable strategies (e.g. Swenson et al., 2012).”
• Mapping functional diversity using individual tree-based morphological and physiological traits in a subtropical forest (2021, methodology): “taxonomy-independent continuous multi-trait approaches using variance- or distance-based metrics (Laliberté and Legendre, 2010; Petchey and Gaston, 2002; Swenson et al., 2012; Villéger et al., 2008; Violle et al., 2014; Walker, 1992).”
• The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “In the following sections, I focus on what has been learned about co-variation in leaf economic traits, in other leaf traits and in stem and root traits, and about their variation across local- to macro-scale environmental gradients.”
• Decomposing functional β-diversity reveals that low functional β-diversity is driven by low functional turnover in European fish assemblages (2013, background): “…671 widely acknowledged that taxonomy is not sufficient to understand the structure of species assemblages (Villéger et al., 2008; Swenson et al., 2012) and their effects on ecosystem functioning (Díaz et al., 2007; Lavorel et al., 2011; Mouillot et al., 2011) without…”
• Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine‐root trait variation (2017, background): “Overall, given the global positive association between above-ground traits representative of fast return on investment and resource availability (Ordo~nez et al. 2009; Swenson et al. 2012; but see Moles et al. 2014; Maire et al. 2015), and acknowledging growing evidence for significant coordination ”