Land-plant ecology on the basis of functional traits.

By M. Westoby, I. Wright. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2006

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

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Global legume diversity assessment: Concepts, key indicators, and strategies (2013, background): “In addition, knowledge of costs and benefits in functional traits enables us to elucidate key trade-offs that determine vegetation changes along climatic gradients (Westoby & Wright, 2006).”
The allometry of reproductive biomass in response to land use in Tibetan alpine grasslands. (2009, background): “RA IN RESPONSE TO GRAZING AND FERTIL IZATION How plant traits respond to land use is a key issue in ecology (McGill et al. 2006; Westoby & Wright 2006).”
The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly (2014, background): “Quantifying the variation of functional traits among and within species increases our capacity to understand ecosystem processes and community assembly (Lavorel & Garnier 2002; McGill et al. 2006; Westoby & Wright 2006; Suding et al. 2008; Shipley 2010).”
Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton (2008, background): “There has been a recent interest in trait-based approaches in ecology, particularly in plant ecology (Lavorel & Garnier 2002, McGill et al. 2006, Westoby & Wright 2006), because these approaches hold the potential of increasing our ability to explain the organization of ecological communities and…”
GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2017, neutral): “Although a trait approach has perhaps been most widely used in vegetation ecology (e.g. Westoby & Wright, 2006; Cornwell et al ., 2008; Adler et al ., 2014), there are a growing number of studies on animal groups, at local or continental scales (e.g. fish, Logez et al ., 2013; birds, Ding et al .,…”
TRY – a global database of plant traits (2011, background): “A focus on traits and trait syndromes therefore provides a promis- ing basis for a more quantitative and predictive ecology and global change science (McGill et al., 2006; Westoby & Wright, 2006).”
Endemic plant communities on special soils: early victims or hardy survivors of climate change? (2012, background): “…leaf water content (Cornelissen et al. 2003), leaf toughness (Cornelissen et al. 2003), foliar N and P concentrations (Cornelissen et al. 2003; Westoby & Wright 2006; Sandel et al. 2010), seed size (Cornelissen et al. 2003; Sandel et al. 2010), height (Cornelissen et al. 2003; Cornwell &…”
Trait plasticity in species interactions: a driving force of community dynamics (2010, background): “This process leads to a coupling between the environment and functional traits that determine a species’ ecological strategy (McGill et al. 2006; Westoby and Wright 2006).”
Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates (2015, background): “…and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK, 3ISRIC – World Soil Information, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands, 4Environmental Change”
The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model (2012, background): “Explicit linkage of species traits to the environmental conditions and resources that shape species distributions would provide an operational framework that would deepen understanding of ecological patterns and enhance the predictive ability of models (Westoby and Wright 2006).”