Contrasting effects of plant inter‐ and intraspecific variation on community‐level trait measures along an environmental gradient

By Emilie Kichenin, David A. Wardle, D. Peltzer, C. Morse, G. T. Freschet. 2013

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species (2014, background): “…supporting the view that plant community composition is the result of a hierarchy of processes acting on individuals (Sundqvist et al. 2011; Kichenin et al. 2013); (iii) a significant proportion of the variation observed in the field is driven by genetic effects, consistent with our…”
Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events (2014, background): “On the other hand, several studies have shown that trait shifts mediated by species turnover play a strong structuring role among communities located along broad environmental gradients (Ackerly & Cornwell 2007; Kichenin et al. 2013).”
Spatial scale and intraspecific trait variability mediate assembly rules in alpine grasslands (2017, background): “CO2 partial pressure that leads to a higher foliar d (13)C (K€orner 2003; de Bello et al. 2013; Kichenin et al. 2013).”
Grazing‐induced shifts in community functional composition and soil nutrient availability in Tibetan alpine meadows (2016, background): “…at sites separated spatially along resource gradients (McIntyre 2008; Albert et al. 2010; Messier, McGill & Lechowicz 2010; Lep s et al. 2011; Kichenin et al. 2013), the consistent changes attributable to intraspecific responses to grazing that we found have only recently been considered…”
A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. (2015, positive): “…to improve predictions of outcomes of species interactions (Kraft et al. 2014), community responses to spatial and temporal environmental gradients (Lepš et al. 2011; Kichenin et al. 2013; Jung et al. 2014), and ecosystem processes such as productivity and nutrient cycling (Breza et al. 2012).”
Patterns in intraspecific variation in root traits are species‐specific along an elevation gradient (2020, background): “Prior studies also observed idiosyncratic patterns in leaf (Albert et al., 2010; Kichenin et al., 2013; Read et al., 2017) and root trait variation along various environmental”
Functional leaf traits of vascular epiphytes: vertical trends within the forest, intra‐ and interspecific trait variability, and taxonomic signals (2016, positive): “SLA captures essentials of leaf economics (Wright et al. 2004) and is a suitable trait for intraspecific adjustments because it can be relatively easily adjusted by varying the size, number and cell wall thickness of different leaf cell types (Shipley et al. 2006; Kichenin et al. 2013).”