Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

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AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. (2022, background): “Progress to date in amassing trait data has been weighted towards plant systems, partly because of the fundamental importance of plants to critical ecological functions (Funk et al., 2017), and also because plant traits are relatively easy to access and measure.”
Ecological strategies begin at germination: Traits, plasticity and survival in the first 4 days of plant life (2020, background): “Functional traits influence plant performance in the context of limiting abiotic and biotic factors, and have become a tool to track or predict changes in plant abundance over large scales (e.g., across communities, regions, or years; Garnier, Navas & Grigulis 2016; Funk et al. 2017).”
Do traits and phylogeny support congruent community diversity patterns and assembly inferences? (2019, background): “Using only a few traits to calculate trait dissimilarity might provide misleading information about competitive outcomes because of the hierarchical nature of competition, especially if competitive interactions are intransitive (Gallien, 2017).”