PLANT FUNCTIONAL MARKERS CAPTURE ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES DURING SECONDARY SUCCESSION

By Eric Garnier, J. Cortez, G. Billès, M. Navas, C. Roumet, M. Debussche, G. Laurent, A. Blanchard, David Aubry, A. Bellmann and 2 more. 2004

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

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Environmental factors and traits that drive plant litter decomposition do not determine home‐field advantage effects (2015, methodology): “For each plot, we used these species-level SLA and LDMC measures to calculate whole community-weighted values, by weighting the SLA or LDMC values of each species present by its relative biomass (Garnier et al. 2004).”
Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment (2012, methodology): “— Species mean functional traits values were used to calculate community trait means, weighted by abundance (CWM) as follows: CWM ¼ Xn i TiPi where Ti is the species mean trait value for species i and Pi is the proportional abundance of species i in the community (Garnier et al. 2004).”
Leaf dry matter content as a predictor of grassland litter decomposition: a test of the ‘mass ratio hypothesis’ (2011, background): “R. J. Pakeman (*) :A. Eastwood :A. Scobie Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK e-mail: r.pakeman@macaulay.ac.uk weighted mean value of a trait can be used to predict the rate of ecosystem processes (Díaz et al. 2007; Garnier et al. 2004).”
Using functional traits to predict grassland ecosystem change: a mathematical test of the response‐and‐effect trait approach (2009, methodology): “Given the paucity of empirical tests to validate this approach, more experiments are needed where species contribution to ecosystem processes are related to environmental changes and effect traits of a certain species or group (e.g. Reich et al., 2001; Craine et al., 2002; Garnier et al., 2004).”
Conservative species drive biomass productivity in tropical dry forests (2016, background): “If the biomass ratio hypothesis plays a role, then productivity should be closely related to the community-weighted mean trait values (CWM), a community metric that weights species trait values by the relative basal area of the species in the community (Garnier et al. 2004).”
Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework (2009, methodology): “2007a), to community response to land use change (Quetier, Thebault, & Lavorel 2007) and community effects on ecosystem functioning (Garnier et al. 2004; Quetier, Thebault, & Lavorel 2007; Dı́az et al. 2007).”
Importance of species abundance for assessment of trait composition: an example based on pollinator communities (2007, background): “From a practical point of view, it is important to know whether such indices are very sensitive to the way the abundance of the species in a community is considered, or not (Ackerly et al. 2002, Garnier et al. 2004, Petchey and Gaston 2006, Lepš et al. 2006, Lavorel et al. 2008).”
Shifts in plant nutrient use strategies under secondary forest succession (2006, background): “Since nutrients are abundant at the mature succesional stage, other traits, such as strong competitive ability for light, are more important (Garnier et al. 2004; Lambers et al. 1998; Vile et al. 2006).”
Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate. (2009, background): “Recent developments in plant functional ecology have highlighted suites of plant traits such as per area leaf mass (MA) and leaf nutrient concentrations, that can serve as predictors of individual plant growth and performance (Reich et al., 1991; Garnier et al., 2004; Poorter and Bongers, 2006).”
Plant functional diversity and carbon storage – an empirical test in semi‐arid forest ecosystems (2013, methodology): “Larger plants are also expected to shed more biomass in the form of leaf and woody litter per unit ground area and thus contribute directly to C accumulation in the standing litter and in the organic soil (Garnier et al. 2004; Lavorel & Grigulis 2012).”
Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide (2016, background): “Therefore, these measures are generally associated with Grime’s (1998) mass ratio hypothesis, which proposes that ecosystem processes are mainly determined by the functional characters of the dominant species (Garnier et al. 2004; Ricotta & Moretti 2011).”
Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures (2009, background): “…resource-retentive life histories (e.g. evergreen leaves, high leaf dry matter content), whereas disturbed plots were more associated with acquisitive life histories (e.g. high leaf nitrogen content (Garnier et al. 2004; Kahmen & Poschlod 2004; Pakeman 2004; Louault et al. 2005; Vile et al. 2006).”