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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Our ability to measure plant characteristics across space and time is crucial for understanding and tracking the diversity and functioning of ecosystems.
Elisa Van Cleemput +4 more
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, 2023 Explore the fascinating world of plant functional traits in our upcoming Reprint sourced from the Special Issue in Plants. Delve into the diverse aspects of plant morphology, their responses to global climate change, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of ...
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Urbanization has a profound impact on the ecological processes and plant diversity of remnant forests. To understand the relationship between urbanization and woody plant communities in remnant forests, we conducted a study in Guiyang, China, where we ...
Yanjun Zheng, Jingyi Yang
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Mechanisms driving plant functional trait variation in a tropical forest
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Plant functional trait variation in tropical forests results from taxonomic differences in phylogeny and associated genetic differences, as well as, phenotypic plastic responses to the environment.
Florian Hofhansl +4 more
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Plant age affects intraspecific variation in functional traits
, 2021 Functional traits are often used to examine ecological patterns and processes. Ontogeny-changes that occur over time as the result of development-generates variation in traits within individual organisms.
Henn, Jonathan,, Damschen, E. I.
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Functional Paleoecology and the Pollen-Plant Functional Trait Linkage
Frontiers 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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Local bird traits match fruit traits of two alien plants in urban fruit-frugivore interactions
Ecología Austral, 2023 Bird-mediated seed dispersal enhances invasions of many alien plant species. Typically, this mutualism is composed of a generalist assemblage of frugivorous birds in which morphological trait matching between bird and plant species is often thought to ...
Facundo X. Palacio, Diego Montalti
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Functional traits of fossil plants
New PhytologistSummaryA 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
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Plant chemical traits define functional and phylogenetic axes of plant biodiversity
Ecology Letters, 2023 Abstract To determine which types of plant traits might better explain ecosystem functioning and plant evolutionary histories, we compiled 42 traits for each of 15 perennial species in a biodiversity experiment. We used every possible combination of three traits to cluster species.
George N. Furey, David Tilman
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, 2010 Aim: Two of the oldest observations in plant geography are the increase in plant diversity from the poles towards the tropics and the global geographic distribution of vegetation physiognomy (biomes). The objective of this paper is to use a process-based
Kleidon, Axel +20 more
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