Plant functional types: are we getting any closer to the Holy Grail?
By S. Lavorel, Sandra Díaz, J. H. C. Cornelissen, Eric Garnier, S. Harrison, S. McIntyre, Juli G. Pausas, N. Pérez‐Harguindeguy, C. Roumet, C. Urcelay. 2007
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Subfields: Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science
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- How functional is functional? Ecological groupings in terrestrial animal ecology: towards an animal functional type approach (2011, background): “2004), and response (community level) and effect (ecosystem level) groups (Hooper et al. 2002; Violle et al. 2007; Lavorel et al. 2007).”
- Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes. (2008, positive): “As a consequence, the amount and composition of carbon forms that plants return to soil, and their subsequent fate in soil, can be related to plant growth rate (Chapin 2003; Lavorel et al. 2007).”
- Quantifying and interpreting functional diversity of natural communities: practical considerations matter (2006, background): “Plant functional traits have been proposed since the 1990s as tools to progress in our understanding of the response of community composition to changing environmental conditions, and of the effects of these changes on ecosystem functioning (see review by Lavorel et al. 2006).”
- Differential responses of plant functional trait to grazing between two contrasting dominant C3 and C4 species in a typical steppe of Inner Mongolia, China (2011, background): “…as reflecting the adaptations to environmental change and trade-offs among different functions within a plant, thus they can better link environmental drivers and plant responses to ecosystem structure and functioning (Díaz et al. 1998; Díaz et al. 2007; Lavorel et al. 2007; Wright et al. 2004).”
- Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “The raison d’être and the ‘Holy Grail’ of trait-based ecology is to use functional traits, rather than species identities, to better predict community and ecosystem dynamics (Lavorel and Garnier, 2002; Lavorel et al., 2007; Suding and Goldstein, 2008).”
- Ecology and Impacts of the Large-Statured Invasive Grasses Arundo donax and Phragmites australis in North America (2010, background): “Plant functional group (or type) is a loosely used term in ecology describing the grouping of plants on the basis of shared morphological, physiological, behavioral, or biochemical attributes rather than evolutionary or taxonomic relatedness (Gitay and Noble 1997; Lavorel et al. 2007).”
- New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, methodology): “(1983); Loehle (1988); Reyes et al. (1992); Niklas (1994); Gartner (1995); Santiago et al.”
- Complementarity as a mechanism of coexistence between functional groups of grasses (2007, result): “Our study supported the relevance of the functional groups approach to understanding species interactions and coexistence (Suding et al. 2003; McGill et al. 2006; Lavorel et al. 2007).”
- Plant trait responses to grazing – a global synthesis (2007, positive): “An important advance in achieving this has been the simplification of vegetation composition using plant functional groups (Lavorel et al., 2007).”