Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

By G. T. Freschet, A. T. Dias, David D. Ackerly, Rien Aerts, Peter M. van Bodegom, William K. Cornwell, M. Dong, H. Kurokawa, Guofang Liu, V. Onipchenko and 7 more. 2011

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

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Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine‐root trait variation (2017, background): “As a point of comparison, the 20-fold difference in fine-root N (from 1 7 to 39 3 mg g 1) was twice its above-ground analogue, leaf N, in a dataset of comparable size and geographical spread (10- fold difference, from 6 3 to 58 7 mg g 1; Freschet et al. 2011).”
Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands (2013, background): “Our knowledge on the mechanisms driving the functional structure of arid and semi-arid ecosystems remains incomplete (Maestre et al. 2009a; Eldridge et al. 2011; Freschet et al. 2011; Frenette-Dussault et al. 2012), despite their ecological importance, extent and the ecosystem services that they pro”
Decay rates of leaf litters from arbuscular mycorrhizal trees are more sensitive to soil effects than litters from ectomycorrhizal trees (2015, background): “In this hypothesis, the microbial ability to decompose high-quality substrates is thought to be ubiquitous whereas the ability to degrade low-quality substrates is limited to the environments where they are produced by plants (Osono 2007; Ayres et al. 2009; Freschet et al. 2011).”
Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models (2016, background): “…for shifts in community-weighted trait means across filter gradients (e.g. Buzzard et al. 2016), evidence of trait convergence or divergence within communities and across gradients (Freschet et al. 2011) or both (e.g. Kraft, Valencia & Ackerly 2008; Spasojevic & Suding 2012; Roscher et al. 2013).”
Evidence for scale‐ and disturbance‐dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi‐natural grasslands (2013, background): “…that at increasing spatial scales, the tendency for species with similar attributes to coexist under similar environmental conditions will result in plant communities that are progressively more likely to be characterized by convergence than by divergence (Freschet et al. 2010; Willis et al. 2010).”
Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home‐field advantage with a new hypothesis (2012, background): “Most ecosystems host tremendous plant functional diversity (Loreau, Naeem & Inchausti 2002; Freschet et al. 2011b), which in turn implies large interspecific variation in the quality of shed litters (Cornwell et al. 2008; Freschet et al. 2010b).”
Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland (2012, unknown): “The analysis of trait distributions within and among communities permits quantification of the strength of different filtering processes and constraints on community assembly along environmental gradients (Freschet et al. 2011; Violle et al. 2012).”
Factors Influencing Leaf Chlorophyll Content in Natural Forests at the Biome Scale (2018, background): “Twenty-percent of spatial variation in leaf economic traits (specific leaf area, leaf longevity, photosynthetic rate, and leaf N and P content) is associated with the coexistence of different plant species (Wright et al., 2004; Freschet et al., 2011).”