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Fine-root functional trait responses to experimental warming: a global meta-analysis.

New Phytologist, 2021
Whether and how warming alters functional traits of absorptive plant roots remains to be answered across the globe. Tackling this question is crucial to better understand terrestrial responses to climate change as fine-root traits drive many ecosystem ...
Jinsong Wang, Camille E. Defrenne, M. L. McCormack, Lu Yang, Dashuan Tian, Yiqi Luo, E. Hou, Tao Yan, Zhaolei Li, Wen-Sheng Bu, Ye Chen, S. Niu   +11 more
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Ecosystem Traits Linking Functional Traits to Macroecology

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2019
As the range of studies on macroecology and functional traits expands, integration of traits into higher-level approaches offers new opportunities to improve clarification of larger-scale patterns and their mechanisms and predictions using models. Here, we propose a framework for quantifying 'ecosystem traits' and means to address the challenges of ...
Nianpeng, He, Congcong, Liu, Shilong, Piao, Lawren, Sack, Li, Xu, Yiqi, Luo, Jinsheng, He, Xingguo, Han, Guangsheng, Zhou, Xuhui, Zhou, Yi, Lin, Qiang, Yu, Shirong, Liu, Wei, Sun, Shuli, Niu, Shenggong, Li, Jiahui, Zhang, Guirui, Yu   +17 more
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Inherited traits affecting platelet function

Blood Reviews, 2008
Inherited platelet disorders constitute a large group of diseases involving a wide range of genetic defects that can lead to bleeding symptoms of varying severity. They are associated with defects in surface membrane glycoproteins resulting in e.g.
Isabelle I, Salles, Hendrik B, Feys, Brecht F, Iserbyt, Simon F, De Meyer, Karen, Vanhoorelbeke, Hans, Deckmyn   +5 more
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Predicting communities from functional traits

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2015
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Marc W, Cadotte, Carlos A, Arnillas, Stuart W, Livingstone, Simone-Louise E, Yasui   +3 more
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Stand structural attributes and functional trait composition overrule the effects of functional divergence on aboveground biomass during Amazon forest succession

, 2020
Two competing ecological hypotheses, i.e., the niche complementarity (NCH) and the mass ratio (MRH) hypotheses, have been proposed to explain how stand structural complexity, functional trait diversity and composition simultaneously determine aboveground
P. M. Villa, Arshad Ali, S. V. Martins, S. N. O. Neto, Alice C Rodrigues, M. Teshome, F. A. Carvalho, Gustavo Heringer, Markus Gastauer   +8 more
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Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap?

Journal of Vegetation Science, 2013
AbstractQuestionMany functional diversity indices require the calculation of functional trait dissimilarities between species. However, very little is known about how the dissimilarity measure used might affect conclusions about ecological processes drawn from functional diversity.MethodsWe simulated real applications of functional diversity, to ...
de Bello, Francesco, Carmona, Carlos P., Sebastià, Ma. T., Leps, Jan, Mason, Norman W. H.   +4 more
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Functional-trait ecology of the plateau pika Ochotona curzoniae in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau ecosystem.

Integrative Zoology, 2019
Understanding a species' functional traits allows for a directed and productive perspective on the role a species plays in nature, and thus its relative importance to conservation planning.
Andrew T. Smith, Badingqiuying, Maxwell Wilson, B. W. Hogan   +3 more
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Emerging Patterns of Microbial Functional Traits

Trends in Microbiology, 2021
Functional traits are measurable characteristics that affect an organism's fitness under certain environmental conditions. The use of functional traits in microbial ecology holds great promise for improving our ability to develop biogeochemical models and predict ecosystem responses to global changes.
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Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2006
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Brian J, McGill, Brian J, Enquist, Evan, Weiher, Mark, Westoby   +3 more
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Functional traits explain ecosystem function through opposing mechanisms

Ecology Letters, 2017
AbstractThe ability to explain why multispecies assemblages produce greater biomass compared to monocultures, has been a central goal in the quest to understand biodiversity effects on ecosystem function. Species contributions to ecosystem function can be driven by two processes: niche complementarity and a selection effect that is influenced by ...
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