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Linking root exudates to functional plant traits. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Primary and secondary metabolites exuded by plant roots have mainly been studied under laboratory conditions, while knowledge of root exudate patterns of plants growing in natural communities is very limited.
Katharina Herz +6 more
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Rhizospheric traits and plant functioning belowground
Plant CommunicationsThe plant rhizosphere, a region interconnecting roots, soil, and microorganisms, is critical for plant resource acquisition, community structure, and the functional stability of ecosystems.
Peipei Zhang +3 more
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Integrating multiple plant functional traits to predict ecosystem productivity. [PDF]
Commun Biol, 2023 AbstractQuantifying and predicting variation in gross primary productivity (GPP) is important for accurate assessment of the ecosystem carbon budget under global change. Scaling traits to community scales for predicting ecosystem functions (i.e., GPP) remain challenging, while it is promising and well appreciated with the rapid development of trait ...
Yan P, He N, Yu K, Xu L, Van Meerbeek K.
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A functional trait perspective on plant invasion [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2012 Global environmental change will affect non-native plant invasions, with profound potential impacts on native plant populations, communities and ecosystems. In this context, we review plant functional traits, particularly those that drive invader abundance (invasiveness) and impacts, as well as the integration of these traits across multiple ecological
Drenovsky, Rebecca E. +7 more
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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 +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 +4 more
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Trait Multi-Functionality in Plant Stress Response [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2019 AbstractPlants often experience multiple stresses in a given day or season, and it is self-evident that given functional traits can provide tolerances of multiple stresses. Yet, the multiple functions of individual traits are rarely explicitly considered in ecology and evolution due to a lack of a quantitative framework.
Lawren Sack, Thomas N Buckley
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FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants
Scientific Data, 2022 AbstractWe introduce the FunAndes database, a compilation of functional trait data for the Andean flora spanning six countries. FunAndes contains data on 24 traits across 2,694 taxa, for a total of 105,466 entries. The database features plant-morphological attributes including growth form, and leaf, stem, and wood traits measured at the species or ...
Selene Báez +43 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Excessive grazing causes a decrease in plant diversity of grassland and also leads to changes in the functional traits of grassland plants. Based on the relationship between plant diversity and the functional traits of constructive species, the patterns ...
Jiangwen Li +6 more
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The China plant trait database version 2
Scientific Data, 2022 Measurement(s) plant functional traits Technology Type(s) plant functional traits Sample Characteristic - Organism Plants Sample Characteristic - Location ...
Han Wang +9 more
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