Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites.

By Eric Garnier, S. Lavorel, P. Ansquer, Helena Castro, P. Cruz, J. Doležal, O. Eriksson, Claire Fortunel, H. Freitas, Carly Golodets and 22 more. Annals of Botany, 2007

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New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, background): “In this sense, it may be useful to distinguish 'variable' traits from more 'stable' traits (Garnier et al. 2007).”
Intraspecific variability in leaf traits strongly affects alder leaf decomposition in a stream (2008, methodology): “Measuring leaf species traits by site of interest represents a more reliable strategy for trait database constitution (e.g., Garnier et al., 2006).”
Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use (2008, methodology): “Further details are in Garnier et al. (2007).”
Assessing functional diversity in the field - methodology matters! (2007, methodology): “…variation (e.g. plant height or leaf nutrient concentrations), for others, intraspecific variation in response to site conditions is negligible as compared to interspecific variation (e.g. life history, specific leaf area or seed mass; Garnier et al. 2007; but see Ackerly & Cornwell 2007).”
Evidence for a ‘plant community economics spectrum’ driven by nutrient and water limitations in a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France (2012, methodology): “In addition, the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus that a given soil can release and make available for plants was assessed using nitrogen (NNI) and phosphorus (PNI) nutrition indices, respectively, as recommended by Garnier et al. (2007).”
Leaf dry matter content as a predictor of grassland litter decomposition: a test of the ‘mass ratio hypothesis’ (2011, methodology): “These were chosen from a subset of grassland species (68) where measures of Leaf Dry Matter Content were available from previous work (Garnier et al. 2007).”
Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche (2009, methodology): “Such information will likely increase in the next coming years with the development of worldwide trait databases combining trait and environmental data (e.g. Garnier et al. 2007; Kleyer et al. 2008).”