Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits.

By Brian J. McGill, Brian J. Enquist, E. Weiher, M. Westoby. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2006

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Contrasting taxonomic and functional responses of a tropical tree community to selective logging (2012, positive): “…functional trait diversity (Devictor et al. 2010; Mayfield et al. 2010), functional traits being the biological attributes of organisms that influence fitness and that shape ecosystem properties (McGill et al. 2006; Diaz et al. 2007; Suding & Goldstein 2008; Cadotte, Carscadden&Mirotchnick 2011).”
Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns (2020, background): “…with regard to trait diversity is whether we are able to identify and measure the traits of ecological relevance for each (Funk et al., 2017; McGill et al., 2006), whether traits are linked closely enough to species niches (D'Andrea, Ostling, & O'Dwyer James, 2018) and whether we can avoid…”
Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta‐analysis (2019, background): “…& Maestre, 2014), often predict the outcome of biotic interactions that may in turn influence community structure (Ackerly & Cornwell, 2007; Kraft & Ackerly, 2014; Kraft, Godoy, et al., 2015; Kunstler et al., 2016; Lavorel & Garnier, 2002; Lebrija-Trejos et al., 2010; McGill et al., 2006).”
Contrasting effects of plant inter‐ and intraspecific variation on community‐level trait measures along an environmental gradient (2013, background): “unit in trait-based ecology (Reich et al. 1999; Garnier et al. 2001; McGill et al. 2006).”
GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2017, positive): “Traits are well-defined, quantifiable properties of organisms, usually measured at the individual level and used comparatively across species: functional traits are those that strongly influence an organism’s performance (McGill et al., 2006).”
New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, background): “…traits to be any morphological, physiological or phenological feature, measurable for individual plants, at the cell to the wholeorganism level, which potentially affects its fitness (cf. McGill et al. 2006; Lavorel et al. 2007; Violle et al. 2007) or its environment (Lavorel and Garnier 2002).”
Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology (2010, methodology): “Rather than focusing only on species identities, it is also possible to define each species by one or more traits (e.g., beak depth, leaf thickness) (McGill et al. 2006) and to then apply tools from quantitative genetics at the community level (e.g., Norberg et al. 2001; Shipley et al. 2006).”
Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, methodology): “…measures of traits, including body size, can better reveal the mechanisms and forces that ultimately structure biological diversity (Grime, 2006; McGill et al., 2006; Stegen et al., 2009) and increase the generality and predictability of ecological models (Dı́az et al., 2004; Kattge et al.,…”