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Seeing the forest for the genes: using metagenomics to infer the aggregated traits of microbial communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Most environments harbor large numbers of microbial taxa with ecologies that remain poorly described and characterizing the functional capabilities of whole communities remains a key challenge in microbial ecology.
Barberán, Albert   +2 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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Inferring resilience to fragmentation-induced changes in plant communities in a semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Predicting the capacity of ecosystems to absorb impacts from disturbance events (resilience), including land-use intensification and landscape fragmentation, is challenging in the face of global change.
Alados, Concepción L.   +3 more
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Functional traits and phenotypic plasticity modulate species coexistence across contrasting climatic conditions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Functional traits are expected to modulate plant competitive dynamics. However, how traits and their plasticity in response to contrasting environments connect with the mechanisms determining species coexistence remains poorly understood.
AB Nicotra   +49 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

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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Növényi jellegek és alkalmazásuk növényökológiai kutatásokban I.: Történeti áttekintés, jelleg típusok, módszertan és adatbázisok = Plant functional traits and their application in ecological research I.: History, traits, methodologies and databases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
: The importance of studies based on plant functional traits is indicated by the huge number of papers (more than 5000) published in the last 15 years in this topic.
E. Vojtkó, Anna   +1 more
core   +1 more source

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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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 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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