Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities?

By M. Navas, C. Violle. 2009

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

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Citations in the corpus

Changes in assembly rules along a stress gradient from open dry grasslands to wetlands (2016, background): “Navas & Violle (2009) argued that trait convergence is expected at both ends of the productivity gradient, and trait divergence at medium productivity.”
Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions (2013, background): “Using a trait-based approach to plant competition (Navas and Violle 2009), functional complementarity among species can be comprehended in terms of differences between relevant plant traits related to resource acquisition/conservation and plant biomass allocation, including plant architectural or…”
Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow (2014, background): “…the tendency of species to be functionally different from each other to limit competition between them, will increase because of stronger competition and niche differentiation between persisting species (MacArthur and Levins, 1967; Navas and Violle, 2009; Mouchet et al., 2010; Mason et al., 2011).”
Plant functional traits capture species richness variations along a flooding gradient (2011, background): “…has been classically proposed as an integrated proxy of competitive interactions in many ecosystems (Grime 1979, Westoby 1998, Westoby et al. 2002, Navas and Violle 2009), in particular in wetlands (Menges and Waller 1983), and experimentally demonstrated as a surrogate for both aboveground and…”
Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “This convergence would be reflected by decreasing variance and an increase in ‘peakedness’ of the trait distribution or an increase in positive kurtosis (Navas and Violle, 2009).”
A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “Hypothesis 2 postulates that different sets of traits are involved in the two processes; this may happen when limiting similarity is induced by disturbances (Grime 2006; Navas and Violle 2009, and see Sections 4.2 and 4.3 for further discussion).”