Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail

By S. Lavorel, Eric Garnier. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “primary productivity or decomposition of litter) within or between compartments, represented by arrows (based on Chapin et al. 2000; Loreau et al. 2001; Lavorel and Garnier 2002; Suding et al. 2008).”
Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland (2010, background): “One emerging approach aimed at gaining a more mechanistic understanding of how plant species affect ecosystem functioning is to study relationships of plant traits to ecosystem properties (Grime 2001; Lavorel & Garnier 2002; Chapin 2003; Diaz et al. 2007; De Deyn, Cornelissen & Bardgett 2008).”
Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: the plant phenotype as an integrated network (2017, background): “By focusing on properties shared by all plants, the trait-based approach offers the promise to shed light on patterns and processes that apply to all taxa (Lavorel & Garnier 2002; McGill et al. 2006; Westoby & Wright 2006; Shipley et al. 2016).”
New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, background): “Ample evidence indicates that plant traits and trait syndromes significantly affect ecosystem processes and services (for overviews, see Lavorel and Garnier 2002; Díaz et al. 2007; Chapin et al. 2008; De Bello et al. 2010; Cardinale et al. 2012).”
Function and “functioning” in ecology: what does it mean? (2005, neutral): “Distinctions of this kind have been proposed by different authors (Catovsky 1998, Hooper et al. 2002, Lavorel and Garnier 2002) who used the terms ‘‘functional effect groups‘‘ und ‘‘functional response groups‘‘ for these two different types of functional groups.”
A functional analysis of large‐scale temporal shifts from 1970 to 2000 in weed assemblages of sunflower crops in France (2009, background): “Some authors have therefore favoured a multi-trait approach through the use of functional groups, defi ned as a set of plants sharing common biological characteristics as well as ecological behaviour and/or effects on ecosystem processes (Noble & Gitay 1996; Lavorel & Garnier 2002).”
Using functional traits to predict grassland ecosystem change: a mathematical test of the response‐and‐effect trait approach (2009, background): “Thereby, plants are classified in terms of their response to environmental factors and their effects on ecosystem properties (Chapin et al., 2000; Lavorel & Garnier, 2002).”
Grazing‐induced shifts in community functional composition and soil nutrient availability in Tibetan alpine meadows (2016, background): “…way to understand the consequences of grazing for management of rangeland sustainability is to focus on how changes in trait composition at the plant community level affect ecosystem function and services (Lavorel & Garnier 2002; Diaz et al. 2007a; Suding et al. 2008; Mouillot et al. 2013).”
Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services (2005, background): “The traits of the dominant plant species are usually the key drivers of an ecosystem’s processing of matter and energy (see Hobbie 1992; Aerts 1995; Chapin et al. 1996; Aerts and Chapin 2000; Lavorel and Garnier 2002 for reviews).”
MACRO-INVERTEBRATE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS IN FRESHWATER AND MARINE SEDIMENTS: A COMMON MECHANISTIC CLASSIFICATION (2003, neutral): “Recent works on the concept of functional groups in different aquatic and terrestrial environments pointed out the variety of views on functional grouping for different organisms and ecosystems such as vertebrates (Blondel 2002), and vegetation communities (Lavorel & Garnier 2002).”
The winners and losers of land use intensification: pollinator community disassembly is non‐random and alters functional diversity (2014, positive): “…traits influence how species respond to disturbance Naeem & Wright, 2003; Hooper et al., 2005; Violle & Jiang, 2009), most traits in our dataset not only contribute to pollination functions, but also are likely to influence responses to disturbance (Lavorel & Garnier, 2002; Larsen et al., 2005).”
The plant traits that drive ecosystems: Evidence from three continents (2004, background): “…by generalist invertebrate herbivores, all of proven value as predictors of ecosystem processes (Mooney 1972; Grime & Hunt 1975; Coley 1980; McNaughton et al. 1989; Herms & Mattson 1992; Hobbie 1992; Berendse 1994; Aerts 1995; Grime et al. 1996; Aerts & Chapin 2000; Lavorel & Garnier 2002).”
Plant strategies and trait trade‐offs influence trends in competitive ability along gradients of soil fertility and disturbance (2005, background): “2002; Lavorel & Garnier 2002).”
Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents (2012, background): “3e; see also Lavorel & Garnier, 2002; McGill et al., 2006; Suding et al., 2008).”
Relationships among ecological traits of wild bee communities along gradients of habitat amount and fragmentation (2017, background): “In this trait-based framework, response traits are associated with the response of species to environmental factors and effect traits determine their contribution to ecosystem function (Lavorel and Garnier 2002, Suding et al. 2008).”