Life-history traits of the Northwest European flora: The LEDA database

By I. Knevel, Renée M. Bekker, J. Bakker, Michael Kleyer. 2003

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

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Niche breadth, rarity and ecological characteristics within a regional flora spanning large environmental gradients (2012, methodology): “This was done using the field observations of botanists from the Alpine Botanical Conservatory and two available databases: LEDA (Knevel et al., 2003) and BiolFlor (Kühn et al., 2004).”
Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. (2006, background): “The use of soft traits greatly decreases the amount of effort required to compile functional information, so that data about thousands of plant species can be obtained (e.g. Knevel et al. 2003).”
Traits of British alien and native urban plants (2008, methodology): “Seed mass and SLA were obtained from the LEDA data base (Knevel et al. 2003).”
Biodiversity, ecosystem function and plant traits in mature and immature plant communities (2005, methodology): “Data were derived largely from an unpublished database (Knevel et al. 2003).”
Trait convergence and trait divergence in herbaceous plant communities: Mechanisms and consequences (2006, background): “The scale and momentum of this research is now such (Knevel et al. 2003; Díaz et al. 2004; Wright et al. 2004; Grime et al. 2006) that we can predict that in some areas of the world it will be possible soon to consult standardized databases in which trait profiles will be available for most native s”
Forecasting Regional to Global Plant Migration in Response to Climate Change (2005, background): “There is a shortage of useful trait data for the majority of species (Knevel et al. 2003).”
The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life‐history traits of the Northwest European flora (2008, background): “The general objectives of the LEDA project were announced in Knevel et al. (2003).”
Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on‐site measurements? (2013, methodology): “All trait measurements were taken following the standard protocols of the LEDAtrait base (Knevel et al. 2003).”
Changes in assembly rules along a stress gradient from open dry grasslands to wetlands (2016, methodology): “1995); LEDA = LEDA data base (Knevel et al. 2003; Kleyer et al. 2008); CLO-PLA = CLO-PLA – data base of clonal growth of plants (Klime s & Klime sov a 1999; Klime sov a & De Bello 2009); T€or€ok = data set of T€or€ok et al.”
The state of plant population modelling in light of environmental change (2008, background): “…in contrast, several initiatives to compile comparable data sets have ARTICLE IN PRESS F. Jeltsch et al. / Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 9 (2008) 171–189 179 only started to be assembled recently (e.g. Knevel et al., 2003; Poschlod et al., 2003; Kühn et al., 2004).”
Plant functional traits in studies of vegetation changes in response to grazing and mowing: towards a use of more specific traits (2008, background): “Currently, however, there are protocols assessing plant traits associated with vegetative regeneration and clonal growth (Cornelissen et al. 2003, Knevel et al. 2003, 2005, Klimesova & Klimes 2007) and databases containing information, for example, on bud banks and clonal growth of the European fl”
Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition (2015, methodology): “Traits were obtained from the LEDA database (Knevel et al. 2003) but were not available for some species, so these were excluded from CWM estimation.”