Global patterns in plant height

By A. Moles, David I. Warton, L. Warman, N. Swenson, Shawn William Laffan, A. Zanne, Andy Pitman, Frank A. Hemmings, M. Leishman. 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Plant functional diversity and carbon storage – an empirical test in semi‐arid forest ecosystems (2013, background): “Plants traits associated with a larger biomass and a higher investment in structure per unit of biomass, such as height and wood-specific gravity (WSG), are therefore expected to directly influence above-ground and below-ground ecosystem C storage (Baker et al. 2004; Moles et al. 2009).”
Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages (2014, background): “Canopy height at maturation varies more than 10 000-fold and captures an aspect of light competition and life span of the main stem (Falster & Westoby 2003; Moles et al. 2009).”
How much of the world is woody? (2014, background): “Conversely, systematic under-sampling of tropical species would bias the global woodiness estimate downwards, as tropical floras are thought to harbour a greater proportion of woody species than temperate ones (Moles et al. 2009).”
Going beyond limitations of plant functional types when predicting global ecosystem–atmosphere fluxes: exploring the merits of traits‐based approaches (2012, background): “, 2005), plant height to precipitation (Moles et al., 2009; Swenson & Weiser, 2010) and hydraulic conductivity in relation to soil moisture (CavenderBares & Holbrook, 2001), precipitation and temperature (Maherali et al.”
The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America (2012, background): “Maximum height indicates the adult light niche of a species (Kohyama, 1993; Moles et al., 2009).”
Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates (2015, methodology): “Models were fitted using the R package ‘lme4’ and adjusted r2 values ra 2( ) were calculated following Moles et al. (2009).”
Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity (2018, background): “SEM revealed that water and nitrogen amendment had indirect positive effects on community productivity, primarily through increasing the community weighted mean of stature (CWMS), a crucial trait that influences plant carbon sequestration capacity, competitive ability and multiple aspects of plant e”
Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature (2013, background): “As with the interspecific latitudinal gradients in plant height (Moles et al. 2009), seed mass (Moles et al.”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “Although causation is still debated, broad-scale gradients of NPP have long been known to correlate with important characteristics of biotic communities, such as species diversity and vegetation structure (e.g., Whittaker 1975, Gillman and Wright 2006, Keeling and Phillips 2007, Moles et al. 2009a).”
From plant functional types to plant functional traits (2015, background): “Plant height is closely related to competition for light, animal diversity and carbon storage capacity (Moles et al., 2009).”
Is rapid evolution common in introduced plant species? (2011, background): “Plants capable of surviving in hotter, drier, nutrient poor conditions tend to be shorter, with smaller, thicker, narrower leaves (Westoby et al. 2002; Wright et al. 2004; Moles et al. 2009).”
Being John Harper: Using evolutionary ideas to improve understanding of global patterns in plant traits (2018, background): “26) of plant height across a global dataset including 5,784 species, while the maximum temperature in the warmest month and precipitation in the driest month explained almost no variation in plant height (Moles et al., 2009).”
Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities (2012, methodology): “Maximum height was used to indicate the adult light niche of species (Moles et al. 2009).”