A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants

By William K. Cornwell, David D. Ackerly. 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Seed and seedling traits affecting critical life stage transitions and recruitment outcomes in dryland grasses (2015, background): “Cornwell & Ackerly (2010) found functional traits such as specific leaf area (SLA) and height to be predictors of local abundance in coastal California communities, while Mart ınez-Garza, Bongers & Poorter (2013) linked leaf and canopy traits to survival probabilities among co-occurring tropical…”
Changing drivers of species dominance during tropical forest succession (2014, unknown): “Cornwell and Ackerly (2010) have shown that species’ abundances are correlated with functional traits, and recent advances have modelled species abundances based on functional traits (using methods like maximum entropy and hierarchical Bayesian models) (Merow, Latimer & Silander 2011; Shipley et…”
Which plant traits determine abundance under long‐term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity? (2012, background): “Despite its conceptual appeal, the strict notion of filters invokes a series of binary decisions that dictate whether a species will be present or not at a site, yet says nothing about its expected abundance (Cornwell & Ackerly 2010; Shipley 2010a).”
Endemic plant communities on special soils: early victims or hardy survivors of climate change? (2012, background): “…tolerances and responses to experimental climate manipulations include: specific leaf area (SLA) (Garnier et al. 2001; Cornelissen et al. 2003; Cornwell & Ackerly 2010; Anacker et al. 2011), leaf water content (Cornelissen et al. 2003), leaf toughness (Cornelissen et al. 2003), foliar N and P…”
Climatic constraints on trait‐based forest assembly (2011, background): “We measured stem traits, such as wood density and twig dry matter content (TDMC), because of their known relationships with water transport and effects on plant survival along moisture gradients (Hacke et al. 2001; Cornwell & Ackerly 2010).”
Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why (2015, background): “…trait data and the potential of functional traits to yield insight into population and community structure (Kraft, Valencia & Ackerly 2008; Cornwell & Ackerly 2010; Kunstler et al. 2012) suggest that integrating them into dynamic vegetation models would increase their reliability…”
Common and rare species respond to similar niche processes in macroinvertebrate metacommunities (2012, background): “Because common and rare species are believed to diff er in their environmental preferences (Magurran and Henderson 2003) and functional traits (Cornwell and Ackerly 2010), we expected them to show diff erent responses to environmental and spatial processes.”
How successful are plant species reintroductions (2011, background): “…persistence and spread are competitive ability, vegetative reproduction, seed bank persistence, wind pollination, plant size, growth rate and leaf area (e.g. Kolar and Lodge, 2001; Pywell et al., 2003; Farnsworth, 2007; Milbau and Stout, 2008; Cornwell and Ackerly, 2010; van Kleunen et al., 2010).”
Topography related habitat associations of tree species traits, composition and diversity in a Chinese tropical forest (2014, background): “At the community scale, plant traits are strongly correlated with soil resources and water availability (Cornwell and Ackerly, 2010; Katabuchi et al., 2012).”