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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, Sophie Dietz, Karin Gorzolka, Sylvia Haider, Ute Jandt, Dierk Scheel, Helge Bruelheide   +6 more
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Rhizospheric traits and plant functioning belowground

Plant Communications
The 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, Junxiang Ding, Deliang Kong, Huajun Yin   +3 more
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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, Luis Cayuela, Manuel J. Macía, Esteban Álvarez-Dávila, Amira Apaza‐Quevedo, Itziar Arnelas, Natalia Baca-Cortes, Guillermo Bañares‐de‐Dios, Marijn Bauters, Celina Ben Saadi, Cecilia Blundo, Marian Cabrera, Felipe Castaño, Leslie Cayola, Julia G. de Aledo, Carlos Iván Espinosa, Belén Fadrique, William Farfán-Ríos, Alfredo Fuentes, Claudia Garnica-Díaz, Mailyn González, Diego González, Isabell Hensen, Ana Belén Hurtado‐M, Oswaldo Jadán, Denis Lippok, M. Isabel Loza, Carla Maldonado, Lucio R. Malizia, Laura Matas‐Granados, Jonathan A. Myers, Natalia Norden, Imma Oliveras Menor, Kerstin Pierick, Hirma Ramírez‐Angulo, Beatriz Salgado‐Negret, Matthias Schleuning, Miles R. Silman, María E. Solarte-Cruz, J. Sebastián Tello, Hans Verbeeck, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Greta Weithmann, Jürgen Homeier   +43 more
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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., Grewell, Brenda J., D'Antonio, Carla M., Funk, Jennifer L., James, Jeremy J., Molinari, Nicole, Parker, Ingrid M., Richards, Christina L.   +7 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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Plant Traits Guide Species Selection in Vegetation Restoration for Soil and Water Conservation

Biology, 2023
Great efforts have been made to improve the soil and water conservation capacity by restoring plant communities in different climatic and land-use types.
Denggao Fu, Xiaoni Wu, Lianyu Hu, Xudong Ma, Chunjie Shen, Huaye Shang, Gongning Huang, Yongjian He, Changqun Duan   +8 more
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Plant Functional Traits as Determinants of Population Stability [PDF]

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2014
Understanding the processes regulating population temporal stability is important to infer species coexistence and ecosystem stability patterns. It has been hypothesized that population temporal stability could be driven by functional trade‐offs in resource acquisition and growth rate strategies.
Maria Májeková, Francesco de Bello, Jiří Doležal, Jan Lepš   +3 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, Sandy P. Harrison, Meng Li, I. Colin Prentice, Shengchao Qiao, Runxi Wang, Huiying Xu, Giulia Mengoli, Yunke Peng, Yanzheng Yang   +9 more
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Plant trait effects on soil organisms and functions [PDF]

Pedobiologia, 2017
Global change alters the composition and functioning of ecosystems by creating novel environmental conditions and thereby selecting for specific traits of organisms. Thus, trait-based approaches are promising tools to more mechanistically understand compositional and functional shifts in ecological communities as well as the dependency of response and ...
Eisenhauer, Nico, Powell, Jeff R. (R16668)   +1 more
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Prediction of plant diversity under different stocking rates based on functional traits of constructive species in a desert steppe, northern China

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, Jiangwen Li, Bangyin He, Shuangxi Zhou, Xiaoxi Zhang, Cai Li, Guodong Han   +6 more
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