Authors
Mirco Migliavacca, Talie Musavi, Miguel D Mahecha, Jacob A Nelson, Jürgen Knauer, Dennis D Baldocchi, Oscar Perez-Priego, Rune Christiansen, Jonas Peters, Karen Anderson, Michael Bahn, T Andrew Black, Peter D Blanken, Damien Bonal, Nina Buchmann, Silvia Caldararu, Arnaud Carrara, Nuno Carvalhais, Alessandro Cescatti, Jiquan Chen, Jamie Cleverly, Edoardo Cremonese, Ankur R Desai, Tarek S El-Madany, Martha M Farella, Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Gianluca Filippa, Matthias Forkel, Marta Galvagno, Ulisse Gomarasca, Christopher M Gough, Mathias Göckede, Andreas Ibrom, Hiroki Ikawa, Ivan A Janssens, Martin Jung, Jens Kattge, Trevor F Keenan, Alexander Knohl, Hideki Kobayashi, Guido Kraemer, Beverly E Law, Michael J Liddell, Xuanlong Ma, Ivan Mammarella, David Martini, Craig Macfarlane, Giorgio Matteucci, Leonardo Montagnani, Daniel E Pabon-Moreno, Cinzia Panigada, Dario Papale, Elise Pendall, Josep Penuelas, Richard P Phillips, Peter B Reich, Micol Rossini, Eyal Rotenberg, Russell L Scott, Clement Stahl, Ulrich Weber, Georg Wohlfahrt, Sebastian Wolf, Ian J Wright, Dan Yakir, Sönke Zaehle, Markus Reichstein
Publication date
2021/10/21
Journal
Nature
Volume
598
Issue
7881
Pages
468-472
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
The leaf economics spectrum, and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions revealed fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies that are shaped by the evolutionary development of plant species. Ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and the traits of species that comprise the ecological communities. However, the axes of variation of ecosystem functions are largely unknown, which limits our understanding of how ecosystems respond as a whole to anthropogenic drivers, climate and environmental variability,. Here we derive a set of ecosystem functions from a dataset of surface gas exchange measurements across major terrestrial biomes. We find that most of the variability within ecosystem functions (71.8%) is captured by three key axes. The first axis reflects maximum ecosystem productivity and is mostly explained by vegetation structure …
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