A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review

By Eric Garnier, M. Navas. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2012

468 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Peter B. Reich
2. C. Violle
3. David D. Ackerly
4. A. Moles
5. M. Westoby
6. S. Lavorel
7. Eric Garnier
8. I. Wright

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Peter B. Reich
2. C. Violle
3. M. Westoby
4. I. Wright
5. A. Moles
6. S. Lavorel
7. David D. Ackerly
8. Eric Garnier

In Plant Science

1. A. Moles
2. M. Westoby
3. Juli G. Pausas
4. U. Niinemets
5. S. Lavorel
6. L. Sack
7. Eric Garnier
8. Peter B. Reich

Citations in the corpus

• Current use of and future needs for soil invertebrate functional traits in community ecology (2014, background): “In various 134 research fields (e.g. plant ecology), functional components of communities have revealed 135 valuable insights into the understanding of organisms' responses to the environment (McGill, 136 Enquist, Weiher & Westoby 2006; Garnier & Navas 2012).”
• Factors Influencing Leaf Chlorophyll Content in Natural Forests at the Biome Scale (2018, background): “A major challenge is establishing how to link traits and functioning in natural ecosystems; yet, such knowledge is important to predict how ecosystem functioning varies with changing environments (Garnier and Navas, 2012; Reichstein et al., 2014).”
• New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, unknown): “(1992); Niklas (1994); Gartner (1995); Santiago et al. (2004); Van Gelder et al. (2006); Poorter et al.”
• From plant functional types to plant functional traits (2015, background): “At the community level, understanding these mechanisms through FTs – as driven by climate factors and biotic interactions and the relationships between FTs and ecological functions – will require more theoretical, experimental and modelling approaches (Garnier and Navas, 2012).”
• Variation in leaf chlorophyll concentration from tropical to cold-temperate forests: Association with gross primary productivity (2018, background): “Previous studies have demonstrated that GPP depends strongly on stand biomass, leaf area index, and therefore, leaf biomass (Garnier and Navas, 2012; Reichstein et al., 2014).”
• TRY – a global database of plant traits (2011, background): “…Database (SID), (2008) 2 Ecological Flora of the British Isles* A. Fitter, H. Ford Fitter & Peat (1994) 3 VegClass CBM Global Database A. Gillison Gillison & Carpenter (1997) 4 PLANTSdata* W. A. Green Green (2009) 5 The LEDA Traitbase* M. Kleyer Kleyer et al. (2008) 6 BiolFlor Database* I.…”
• Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade‐offs and synergies in grasslands (2020, background): “Functional traits hence depict mechanistic linkages between organisms and their environment (Lavorel & Garnier, 2002) and may serve as predictors of ecosystem service supply (Garnier & Navas, 2012).”
• Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “…the timings of peak production and plant digestibility, and response time to disturbance can be predicted from the shape of the community trait distribution as well as many of the plant traits underlying our general growth equation (see studies and references listed in Garnier and Navas, 2012).”