Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

By William K. Cornwell, M. Westoby, Daniel S. Falster, Richard G. FitzJohn, Brian C. O'Meara, Matthew W. Pennell, D. McGlinn, Jonathan M. Eastman, A. Moles, Peter B. Reich and 16 more. 2014

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

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A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide (2017, background): “ies underline the evolutionary history of functional traits (Cornelissen & Cornwell 2014; Cornwell et al. 2014; Flores et al. 2014; D ıaz et al. 2016) and the consistent co-occur-”
V.PhyloMaker2: An updated and enlarged R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants (2022, methodology): “For example, phylogenies have been used to address ecological questions (Beaulieu et al., 2012; Cornwell et al., 2014), evolution of climate tolerance (Smith et al., 2009; Edwards and Smith, 2010; Zanne et al., 2014), and diversi ﬁ cation (Smith et al., 2011).”
Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine‐root trait variation (2017, background): “This result is consistent with previous work showing that N2fixers have higher leaf and stem N concentrations than other groups (Wright et al. 2005a; Cornwell et al. 2014).”
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “…the C-S axis of the Grime triangle and the ‘leaf’ component of the Westoby LHS scheme are paralleled by findings from economics trait spectra studies (Grime 1979; Reich, Walters & Ellsworth 1997; Wright et al. 2004; Westoby 2006), despite different ways of describing and labelling those strategies.”
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