A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology.

By Colleen Webb, Jennifer A. Hoeting, Gregory M. Ames, M. Pyne, N. LeRoy Poff. Ecology Letters, 2010

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A proposed unified terminology of species traits in stream ecology (2015, background): “Traits-based data are easily compared across ecosystems and may facilitate establishing stronger links between community and ecosystem ecology (Webb et al. 2010).”
Functional traits of epiphytic lichens as potential indicators of environmental conditions in forest ecosystems (2012, background): “In general, independently of species richness and composition, unctional traits of species are expected to directly link to envionmental factors (Webb et al., 2010; Ricotta and Bacaro, 2010), llowing comparisons among different ecosystems and across egions.”
Delivering on a promise: integrating species traits to transform descriptive community ecology into a predictive science (2013, background): “Because of this potential, the use of species traits in basic and applied ecology is a rapidly expanding research area (Dolédec and Statzner 2010, Menezes et al. 2010, Webb et al. 2010, VandeWalle et al. 2010).”
Current use of and future needs for soil invertebrate functional traits in community ecology (2014, background): “Furthermore, a 216 trait is qualified as “functional” when it influences the organism’s performance and 217 consequently its fitness (Southwood 1977; Nylin & Gotthard 1998; Blanck, Tedesco & 218 Lamouroux 2007; Violle et al. 2007; Webb et al. 2010).”
Changes in assembly rules along a stress gradient from open dry grasslands to wetlands (2016, methodology): “Also, using this approach allows quantitative comparisons to be made between communities that have hardly any or no species in common (Webb et al. 2010).”
Advances in restoration ecology: rising to the challenges of the coming decades (2015, background): “There are limits to setting specific trait targets as knowledge of which traits drive fitness and performance along environmental gradients is still developing (Webb et al. 2010).”
Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “, 2009) and increase the generality and predictability of ecological models (Dı́az et al., 2004; Kattge et al., 2011; Webb et al., 2010).”
Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits (2017, unknown): “Over the last decade, strong calls have been made to shift the research focus of community ecology from purely species-based approaches to trait-based ones (among others Lavorel & Garnier 2002; McGill et al. 2006; Diaz et al. 2007b; Suding et al. 2008; Webb et al. 2010; Chown 2012; Mouillot et al. 2”
A macroecological perspective of trait patterns in stream communities (2013, background): “…& Angermeier, 2010), convergence of community structure among evolutionary distinct regions (e.g. Ernst et al., 2012), links between community structure and ecosystem functioning (e.g. Webb et al., 2010), and determinants of local abundance and regional distribution (e.g. Verberk et al., 2010).”