The global spectrum of plant form and function

By Sandra Díaz, Jens Kattge, J. H. C. Cornelissen, I. Wright, S. Lavorel, Stéphane Dray, B. Reu, Michael Kleyer, Christian Wirth, I. C. Prentice and 25 more. Nature, 2015

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species (2018, background): “We examined the following plant traits related to key plant ecological strategies (D ıaz et al., 2016): plant height, specific leaf area (SLA) and seed mass as representatives of major plant strategies (Westoby, 1998), and leaf nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations per mass as key resource…”
Mapping functional diversity using individual tree-based morphological and physiological traits in a subtropical forest (2021, background): “Ecologically meaningful functional traits representing morphological and physiological characteristics of organisms are critical indicators for FD monitoring (Díaz et al., 2016; Homolová et al., 2013; Petchey and Gaston, 2006; Violle et al., 2007).”
Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales. (2016, background): “(C) Considering the probabilistic nature of niches can yield results substantially different from methods that only consider the boundaries, particularly when the functional trait space is not homogenously filled [55].”
Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: the plant phenotype as an integrated network (2017, background): “A handful of studies have examined the relationship among traits from distinct dimensions at continental and global scales (Baraloto et al. 2010; Price et al. 2014; Diaz et al. 2016), but to our knowledge, the degree of correlation among trait dimensions at local scales remains unknown.”
Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine‐root trait variation (2017, background): “Importantly, similar to observations made on leaf traits (Craine et al. 2001; Poorter et al. 2009; D ıaz et al. 2016), the large overlap in fine-root traits among all plant functional types stresses that these global trends may not systematically occur at local scales.”
Effects of disturbance frequency and severity on plant traits: An assessment across a temperate flora (2018, background): “However, the role of LHS traits is known to be different in woody and non- woody plants, as shown for height (Díaz et al., 2016; Moles et al., 2009; Vesk, 2006) and SLA (Funk & Cornwell, 2013; Mason & Donovan, 2015).”
Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide (2016, background): “Recent literature has provided empirical support for a strongly limited set of viable trait combinations that together capture the essence of plant form and function (see D ıaz et al. 2016).”