Going beyond limitations of plant functional types when predicting global ecosystem–atmosphere fluxes: exploring the merits of traits‐based approaches

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Functional and Phylogenetic Approaches to Forecasting Species' Responses to Climate Change (2012, background): “Ecosystem models based on plant functional types are frequently invoked to project ecosystems changes due to climate shifts (Van Bodegom et al. 2012).”
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “Improving characterization of trait variability in models is an active area at present; both trait–trait and trait–environment approaches may be fruitful (Swenson et al. 2012a,b; van Bodegom et al. 2012).”
A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide (2017, methodology): “A number of CSR analysis methods have been developed (Grime, Hodgson & Hunt 1988; Hodgson et al. 1999; Pierce et al. 2013) and have been applied as practical tools to characterize, map and compare vegetation function (Bunce et al. 1999; Hunt et al. 2004; Schmidtlein, Feilhauer & Bruelheide 2012).”
Leaf dry matter content is better at predicting above-ground net primary production than specific leaf area (2017, background): “However, such categorical units have reduced information content because 394 they do not express continuous variation in plant properties that influence ecosystem 395 function (Van Bodegom et al. 2012).”