Authors
Helge Bruelheide, Jürgen Dengler, Oliver Purschke, Jonathan Lenoir, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Stephan M Hennekens, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Milan Chytrý, Richard Field, Florian Jansen, Jens Kattge, Valério D Pillar, Franziska Schrodt, Miguel D Mahecha, Robert K Peet, Brody Sandel, Peter Van Bodegom, Jan Altman, Esteban Alvarez-Dávila, Mohammed AS Arfin Khan, Fabio Attorre, Isabelle Aubin, Christopher Baraloto, Jorcely G Barroso, Marijn Bauters, Erwin Bergmeier, Idoia Biurrun, Anne D Bjorkman, Benjamin Blonder, Andraž Čarni, Luis Cayuela, Tomáš Černý, J Hans C Cornelissen, Dylan Craven, Matteo Dainese, Géraldine Derroire, Michele De Sanctis, Sandra Díaz, Jiří Doležal, William Farfan-Rios, Ted R Feldpausch, Nicole J Fenton, Eric Garnier, Greg R Guerin, Alvaro G Gutiérrez, Sylvia Haider, Tarek Hattab, Greg Henry, Bruno Hérault, Pedro Higuchi, Norbert Hölzel, Jürgen Homeier, Anke Jentsch, Norbert Jürgens, Zygmunt Kącki, Dirk N Karger, Michael Kessler, Michael Kleyer, Ilona Knollová, Andrey Y Korolyuk, Ingolf Kühn, Daniel C Laughlin, Frederic Lens, Jacqueline Loos, Frédérique Louault, Mariyana I Lyubenova, Yadvinder Malhi, Corrado Marcenò, Maurizio Mencuccini, Jonas V Müller, Jérôme Munzinger, Isla H Myers-Smith, David A Neill, Ülo Niinemets, Kate H Orwin, Wim A Ozinga, Josep Penuelas, Aaron Pérez-Haase, Petr Petřík, Oliver L Phillips, Meelis Pärtel, Peter B Reich, Christine Römermann, Arthur V Rodrigues, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Jordi Sardans, Marco Schmidt, Gunnar Seidler, Javier Eduardo Silva Espejo, Marcos Silveira, Anita Smyth, Maria Sporbert, Jens-Christian Svenning, Zhiyao Tang, Raquel Thomas, Ioannis Tsiripidis, Kiril Vassilev, Cyrille Violle, Risto Virtanen, Evan Weiher, Erik Welk, Karsten Wesche, Marten Winter, Christian Wirth, Ute Jandt
Publication date
2018/12
Journal
Nature ecology & evolution
Volume
2
Issue
12
Pages
1906-1917
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Description
Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from these trade-offs because different strategies can facilitate co-existence within communities. A key question is to what extent community-level trait composition is globally filtered and how well it is related to global versus local environmental drivers. Here, we perform a global, plot-level analysis of trait–environment relationships, using a database with more than 1.1 million vegetation plots and 26,632 plant species with trait information. Although we found a strong filtering of 17 functional traits, similar climate and soil conditions support communities differing greatly in mean trait values. The two main community trait axes that capture half of the global trait variation (plant stature and …
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