Allocating CSR plant functional types: the use of leaf economics and size traits to classify woody and herbaceous vascular plants

By S. Pierce, G. Brusa, I. Vagge, Bruno E. L. Cerabolini. 2013

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

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Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide (2016, background): “In this framework, Grime (1974, 2001) identified three main directions of adaptive specialization affecting plant performance, which reflect primary tradeoffs between plant size and resource economics in a standardized way (see Pierce et al. 2013).”
Towards a trait‐based ecology of wetland vegetation (2017, background): “Dominating leaf traits for these strategies (Pierce et al. 2013) would suggest that higher wetness favours higher LDMC while reducing SLA.”
The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly (2014, background): “Leaf surface area (Pierce et al. 2013), hydraulic conductance (Sack et al.”
Effects of disturbance frequency and severity on plant traits: An assessment across a temperate flora (2018, background): “Our findings based on such data support most of the assumptions on which CSR classification of plant strategies is based, namely life span, and to lesser extent SLA (as a proxy for growth rate) and seed mass (Grime, 1977; Pierce et al., 2013, 2016).”
Ontogenetic shifts in plant ecological strategies (2018, methodology): “therefore be used to assess the width of viable ecological strategies of species (May et al., 2017; Pierce et al., 2013) and assess possible expansions or contractions in niche width during development.”
Linking plant strategies and plant traits derived by radiative transfer modelling (2017, methodology): “Leaf area has a strong association with CSR scores (Cerabolini et al. 2010a; Pierce et al. 2013), and at least one small-scale study has determined that LAI of herbaceous communities reflects the range and character of CSR strategies present (Cerabolini et al. 2010b).”
A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide (2017, methodology): “These two principal functional trait spectra can be used to assign species a position within multivariate space relative to other species and concurrently to allocate discrete ecological strategy classes (Pierce et al. 2013).”