Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

By J. Lepš, Francesco de Bello, P. Šmilauer, J. Doležal. 2011

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

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Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow (2014, background): “All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2013.07.015 into account the functional differences between species, but also incorporates functional trait variation between populations and across individuals within some populations (Mason et al., 2005; Leps et al., 2006; Lepš et al., 2011).”
A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity-productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands (2013, background): “Therefore, observed changes in functional trait composition 284 are exclusively due to species turnover or shifts in species abundance distributions, while 285 ignoring possible effects of intra-specific trait variation (Lepš et al., 2011).”
Evidence for a ‘plant community economics spectrum’ driven by nutrient and water limitations in a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France (2012, methodology): “To quantify how much variability is accounted for by each individual component (species turnover or intraspecific variability), we used the method based on the Sum of Squares (SS) decomposition (see details in Leps et al. 2011).”
A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. (2015, positive): “…to improve predictions of outcomes of species interactions (Kraft et al. 2014), community responses to spatial and temporal environmental gradients (Lepš et al. 2011; Kichenin et al. 2013; Jung et al. 2014), and ecosystem processes such as productivity and nutrient cycling (Breza et al. 2012).”
Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap? (2013, background): “We suggest, anyway, that the species trait mean values used for calculations should be measured, for each species, in different environmental condition (Leps et al. 2011).”