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Relationships between Community Level Functional Traits of Trees and Seedlings during Secondary Succession in a Tropical Lowland Rainforest. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Most of the previous studies on functional traits focus exclusively on either seedlings or trees. Little knowledge exists on the relationships between community level functional traits of trees and seedlings during succession. Here, we examine variations
XingHui Lu, RunGuo Zang, JiHong Huang
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Plant functional traits under cattle grazing and fallow age scenarios in a tropical dry forest of Northwestern Mexico

Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022
Evaluating plant functional traits helps to understand how plants respond to changing environmental conditions and resource availability associated with disturbance events.
Susana Maza-Villalobos, Perla García-Ramírez, Bryan A. Endress, Leonel Lopez-Toledo   +3 more
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On Plant Modularity Traits: Functions and Challenges [PDF]

Trends in Plant Science, 2017
On-spot persistence, space occupancy, and recovery after damage are key plant functions largely understudied. Traits relevant to these functions are difficult to assess because of their relationships to plant modularity. We suggest that developing collection protocols for these traits is feasible and could facilitate their inclusion in global syntheses.
Ottaviani, Gianluigi, Martínková, Jana, Herben, Tomáš, Klimešová, Jitka, Pausas, J. G.   +4 more
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Global relationships in tree functional traits

Nature Communications, 2022
AbstractDue to massive energetic investments in woody support structures, trees are subject to unique physiological, mechanical, and ecological pressures not experienced by herbaceous plants. Despite a wealth of studies exploring trait relationships across the entire plant kingdom, the dominant traits underpinning these unique aspects of tree form and ...
Daniel S. Maynard, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Constantin M. Zohner, Colin Averill, Johan van den Hoogen, Haozhi Ma, Lidong Mo, Gabriel Reuben Smith, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Isabelle Aubin, Erika Berenguer, Coline C. F. Boonman, Jane A. Catford, Bruno E. L. Cerabolini, Arildo S. Dias, Andrés González-Melo, Peter Hietz, Christopher H. Lusk, Akira S. Mori, Ülo Niinemets, Valério D. Pillar, Bruno X. Pinho, Julieta A. Rosell, Frank M. Schurr, Serge N. Sheremetev, Ana Carolina da Silva, Ênio Sosinski, Peter M. van Bodegom, Evan Weiher, Gerhard Bönisch, Jens Kattge, Thomas W. Crowther   +31 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
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Functional traits of fossil plants

New Phytologist
SummaryA minuscule fraction of the Earth's paleobiological diversity is preserved in the geological record as fossils. What plant remnants have withstood taphonomic filtering, fragmentation, and alteration in their journey to become part of the fossil record provide unique information on how plants functioned in paleo‐ecosystems through their traits ...
McElwain, Jennifer C., Matthaeus, William J., Barbosa, Catarina, Chondrogiannis, Christos, O' Dea, Katie, Jackson, Bea, Knetge, Antonietta B., Kwasniewska, Kamila, Nair, Richard, White, Joseph D., Wilson, Jonathan P., Montañez, Isabel P., Buckley, Yvonne M., Belcher, Claire M., Nogué, Sandra   +14 more
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler, Markus R. Busch, Reinhard Sterner   +2 more
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Geographic patterns and drivers of leaf functional traits in mangrove forests across Hainan Island: Climate dominance and context-dependent mechanisms

Global Ecology and Conservation
Disentangling the responses of leaf functional traits to global environmental changes is crucial for understanding biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) linkages.
Jingyi Cui, Chengqian He, Lin Du, Qian Chen, Mengli Wang, Zhouwei Yu, Zhongyi Sun, Quan Chen   +7 more
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Microbiome‐blood–brain barrier interactions in aging — mechanisms and therapeutic potential

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Aging reshapes the gut microbiome (↓SCFA‐producing commensals; ↑pro‐inflammatory outputs), shifting circulating metabolites (↓SCFAs; ↑LPS, ↑TMAO, ↑PAA) that act at the BBB to increase nonspecific transcytosis, alter transport, and promote astrocyte reactivity, heightening brain vulnerability.
Daniel Cuervo‐Zanatta, Hari Baskar Balasubramanian, Amir Pasokh, Marietta Zille   +3 more
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Response of functional traits of Castanopsis hystrix leaves to geographical environment factors

Guangxi Zhiwu
Leaf is an important nutrient organ for physiological and biochemical activities of plants, and its functional traits reflect the environmental adaptability of plants to a certain extent.
LI Qiguo 1, JIANG Weixin1, TAN Zhangqiang2, BAI Tiandao1*, SHEN Wenhui2
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