Consistent Shifts in Alpine Plant Traits along a Mesotopographical Gradient

By Philippe Choler. 2005

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

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Citations in the corpus

Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps (2013, background): “Traits were mostly sampled in 2008 and the previous years (Choler 2005, Lavorel et al. 2008), according to standardized protocols for plant functional trait measurements (Cornelissen et al. 2003).”
So Many Variables: Joint Modeling in Community Ecology. (2015, methodology): “We will consider alpine plants at 75 sites in Aravo (Valloire), south east France [71], with varying snowmelt dates.”
Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “Numerous studies have documented shifts in the traits of communities and assemblages across environmental gradients (Ackerly, 2003; Choler, 2005; Fonseca et al., 2000; Swenson and Enquist, 2007).”
Using plant functional traits to explain community composition across a strong environmental filter in Australian alpine snowpatches (2011, background): “Plant functional trait studies remain rare in alpine ecosystems (Choler 2005; Onipchenko et al. 1998) despite their potential utility to provide a mechanistic insight into species distribution patterns.”
Shifts in bat community structure related to evolved traits and features of human-altered landscapes (2008, methodology): “The analysis then uses eigenvalue decomposition of this fourth matrix to determine RLQ axis 1 that maximizes the covariance between species constrained by their traits and landscapes constrained by their environmental measures (Choler 2005).”
Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape (2015, background): “…of these processes in shaping plant communities, some studies have considered community-wide patterns of functional trait diversity based on mean values for each species in a given community or habitat (e.g. Onipchenko et al. 1998; Choler 2005; Spasojevic and Suding 2012; Spasojevic et al. 2013).”
Spatial scale and intraspecific trait variability mediate assembly rules in alpine grasslands (2017, background): “In alpine ecosystems, variation in snow cover duration along elevation and mesotopographic gradients is a key driver of plant distribution and community composition (Evans et al. 1989; Choler 2005; Carlson et al. 2015).”