Authors
Elise Bouchard, Eric B Searle, Pierre Drapeau, Jingjing Liang, Javier GP Gamarra, Meinrad Abegg, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica Almeyda Zambrano, Esteban Alvarez‐Davila, Luciana F Alves, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo Aymard, Jean‐François Bastin, Philippe Birnbaum, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro Brancalion, Eben Broadbent, Filippo Bussotti, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Goran Češljar, Chelsea Chisholm, Emil Cienciala, Connie J Clark, José Javier Corral‐Rivas, Thomas W Crowther, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Mathieu Decuyper, André L de Gasper, Sergio de‐Miguel, Géraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, Ilija Djordjević, Tran Van Do, Jiri Dolezal, Tom M Fayle, Jonas Fridman, Lorenzo Frizzera, Damiano Gianelle, Andreas Hemp, Bruno Hérault, Martin Herold, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M Jagodziński, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Tommaso Jucker, Sebastian Kepfer‐Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Hyun Seok Kim, Henn Korjus, Florian Kraxner, Diana Laarmann, Simon Lewis, Huicui Lu, Brian S Maitner, Eric Marcon, Andrew R Marshall, Sharif A Mukul, Gert‐Jan Nabuurs, María Guadalupe Nava‐Miranda, Elena I Parfenova, Minjee Park, Pablo L Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L Phillips, Maria Teresa F Piedade, Daniel Piotto, John R Poulsen, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Peter B Reich, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir Rolim, Francesco Rovero, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas‐Eljatib, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Jochen Schöngart, Vladimír Šebeň, Plinio Sist, Ferry Slik, Alexandre F Souza, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Miroslav Svoboda, Nadezhda M Tchebakova, Hans ter Steege, Elena V Tikhonova, Vladimir A Usoltsev, Fernando Valladares, Helder Viana, Alexander C Vibrans, Hua‐Feng Wang, Bertil Westerlund, Susan K Wiser, Florian Wittmann, Verginia Wortel, Tomasz Zawiła‐Niedźwiecki, Mo Zhou, Zhi‐Xin Zhu, Irié C Zo‐Bi, Alain Paquette
Publication date
2024/2
Journal
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
303-324
Description
Aim
To determine the relationships between the functional trait composition of forest communities and environmental gradients across scales and biomes and the role of species relative abundances in these relationships.
Location
Global.
Time period
Recent.
Major taxa studied
Trees.
Methods
We integrated species abundance records from worldwide forest inventories and associated functional traits (wood density, specific leaf area and seed mass) to obtain a data set of 99,953 to 149,285 plots (depending on the trait) spanning all forested continents. We computed community‐weighted and unweighted means of trait values for each plot and related them to three broad environmental gradients and their interactions (energy availability, precipitation and soil properties) at two scales (global and biomes).
Results
Our models explained up to 60% of the variance in trait distribution. At global scale, the energy …
Total citations
20245
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