Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

Background Anthropogenic climate change (ACC) will influence all aspects of plant biology
over coming decades. Many changes in wild species have already been well-documented …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been shown to have globally
consistent effects on individual plant physiological functions,,, but how these effects scale up …

Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Drought-induced tree mortality has been observed globally and is expected to increase
under climate change scenarios, with large potential consequences for the terrestrial carbon …

Summary Competitor, stress‐tolerator, ruderal (CSR) theory is a prominent plant functional
strategy scheme previously applied to local floras. Globally, the wide geographic and …

Variation and tradeoffs within and among plant traits are increasingly being harnessed by
empiricists and modelers to understand and predict ecosystem processes under changing …

Plant hydraulics mediate terrestrial woody plant productivity, influencing global water,
carbon, and biogeochemical cycles, as well as ecosystem vulnerability to drought and …

Motivation Trait data are fundamental to the quantitative description of plant form and
function. Although root traits capture key dimensions related to plant responses to changing …