Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

By Cécile H. Albert, Wilfried Thuiller, N. Yoccoz, A. Soudant, F. Boucher, Patrick Saccone, S. Lavorel. 2010

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

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TRY – a global database of plant traits (2011, background): “Information about the abiotic and biotic environment in combination with trait data is essential to allow an assessment of environmental constraints on the variation of plant traits (Fyllas et al., 2009; Meng et al., 2009; Ordoñez et al., 2009; Albert et al., 2010b; Poorter et al., 2010).”
What ' s on the horizon for macroecology? (2012, background): “For trait analyses, ignoring intraspecifi c variation and its impact on correlations especially across large scales and climatic gradients can be problematic (Jenouvrier et al. 2009, Albert et al. 2010), but trait values are often available only as averages per species.”
Which plant traits determine abundance under long‐term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity? (2012, background): “Doing so partially takes into account intraspecific variation for these traits, which can be important (Garnier et al. 2007; Albert et al. 2010).”
The reciprocal relationship between competition and intraspecific trait variation (2016, background): “Despite variation in mean trait values, there is often considerable overlap among species when trait ranges are taken into account, resulting in strong effects of intraspecific variation on trait-based community analyses (Albert et al. 2010; Jung et al. 2010; Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al. 2014; Carmona”
Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape (2015, background): “Traits of alpine plant species has been shown to vary along topographic gradients (e.g. Kudo et al. 2001; Albert et al. 2010; Boucher et al. 2013).”
Grazing‐induced shifts in community functional composition and soil nutrient availability in Tibetan alpine meadows (2016, background): “…in intraspecific trait variability (ITV: Albert et al. 2010; Messier, McGill & Lechowicz 2010; Lep s et al. 2011) associated with plastic environmental responses in individual plants and shifts in the relative abundance of genotypic variants within species (Diaz et al. 2007b; Albert et al. 2010).”
Using species richness and functional traits predictions to constrain assemblage predictions from stacked species distribution models (2015, background): “…trait averages for each species, whereas each of these traits is known in situ to exhibit intraspecific variation along environmental gradients (Albert et al., 2010); (2) the traits that we used have been shown not always to relate significantly to species’ habitat suitability (Thuiller et…”
Evidence for a ‘plant community economics spectrum’ driven by nutrient and water limitations in a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France (2012, background): “…our findings suggest the importance of considering this source of variability in several above-ground traits for a better understanding of plant strategies and ecological patterns along environmental gradients, as proposed by recent studies (Albert et al. 2010a,b; Messier, McGill & Lechowicz 2010).”
Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “While measuring traits of all individuals in a community is ideal and several studies have done so (Albert et al., 2010; Gaucherand and Lavorel, 2007; Lavorel et al., 2008), it is a time-consuming work (Baraloto et al.”
Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events (2014, background): “Therefore, the intraspecific trait response to drought can vary depending on whether drought moves species closer or away from their ecological optimum (Albert et al. 2010).”
Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis (2014, background): “(ii) Trait variability within single grassland species might be as large as or even larger than between different species (Albert et al., 2010).”
How to measure and test phylogenetic signal (2012, background): “An additional and important source of uncertainty, when using mean trait values for species, comes from intraspecific trait variability (Ives, Midford & Garland 2007; Felsenstein 2008; Albert et al. 2010).”
A multi‐trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra‐ vs. interspecific variability in plant traits (2010, background): “Thanks to our stratified sampling strategy, several contrasting populations were sampled throughout each species’ range (Albert et al. 2010).”