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Transgressivity in Key Functional Traits Rather Than Phenotypic Plasticity Promotes Stress Tolerance in A Hybrid Cordgrass [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Hybridization might promote offspring fitness via a greater tolerance to environmental stressors due to heterosis and higher levels of phenotypic plasticity.
Castillo Segura, Jesús Manuel   +3 more
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Functional traits and root morphology of alpine plants [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Botany, 2011
Vegetation has long been recognized to protect the soil from erosion. Understanding species differences in root morphology and functional traits is an important step to assess which species and species mixtures may provide erosion control. Furthermore, extending classification of plant functional types towards root traits may be a useful procedure in ...
Pohl, Mandy   +3 more
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TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Plant traits-the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants-determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem properties and their benefits ...
Aakala, T   +727 more
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Effects of abandonment on plant diversity in seminatural grasslands along soil and climate gradients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Questions: What are the effects of abandonment on plant diversity in semi-natural grasslands? Do the effects of abandonment on taxonomic and functional diversity vary along environmental gradients of climate and soil?
Hovstad, Knut Anders   +3 more
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Plant–soil feedbacks: role of plant functional group and plant traits

open access: yesJournal of Ecology, 2016
Summary Plant–soil feedback (PSF), plant trait and functional group concepts advanced our understanding of plant community dynamics, but how they are interlinked is poorly known. To test how plant functional groups (FGs: graminoids, small herbs, tall herbs, legumes) and plant traits relate to PSF, we grew 48 grassland species in sterilized soil ...
Cortois, Roeland   +4 more
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A functional trait database for Mediterranean Basin plants [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Data, 2018
AbstractFunctional trait databases are emerging as crucial tools for a wide range of ecological studies across the world. Here, we provide a database of functional traits for vascular plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. The database includes 25,764 individual records of 44 traits from 2,457 plant taxa distributed in 119 taxonomic families.
Tavşanoğlu, Çağatay, Pausas, Juli G.
openaire   +3 more sources

Using life-history traits to explain bird population responses to changing weather variability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Bird population dynamics are expected to change in response to increased weather variability, an expression of climate change. The extent to which species are sensitive to effects of weather on survival and reproduction depends on their life-history ...
Braak, C.J.F., ter   +4 more
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Functional Paleoecology and the Pollen-Plant Functional Trait Linkage

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Paleoecological investigations using the pollen-plant functional trait linkage are increasing in value as new insights to past ecological function and dynamics are revealed. These retrospective approaches link pollen sequences to plant functional trait measurements to reveal long-term changes in ecosystem properties that are difficult to resolve using ...
Thomas Brussel   +2 more
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Landscape metrics as functional traits in plants: perspectives from a glacier foreland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Spatial patterns of vegetation arise from an interplay of functional traits, environmental characteristics and chance. The retreat of glaciers offers exposed substrates which are colonised by plants forming distinct patchy patterns. The aim of this study
Bernhardt-Römermann   +68 more
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Functional traits of fossil plants

open access: yesNew 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.   +14 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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