A core challenge in global change biology is to predict how species will respond to future
environmental change and to manage these responses. To make such predictions and …

Traits are measurable features of organisms. Functional traits aspire to more. They quantify
an organism's ecology and, ultimately, predict ecosystem functions based on local …

Traits are inherent properties of organisms, but how are they defined for organismal
networks such as mycorrhizal symbioses? Mycorrhizal symbioses are complex and diverse …

The widespread use of species traits in basic and applied ecology, conservation and
biogeography has led to an exponential increase in functional diversity analyses, with> 10 …

Traits have become a crucial part of ecological and evolutionary sciences, hel**
researchers understand the function of an organism's morphology, physiology, growth and …

Holistic insect monitoring needs scalable techniques to overcome taxon biases, determine
species abundances, and gather functional traits for all species. This requires that we …

Bryophytes are a diverse group of organisms with unique properties, yet they are severely
underrepresented in plant trait databases. Building on the recently published European Red …

Context Improving our understanding of how riverine communities respond to anthropogenic
change requires spatial comparisons across multiple sites, high-resolution temporal …

The complex web of interactions between ecological communities and the physical
landscape (biogeomorphology) is being affected by the global scale environmental changes …

Aim Functional trait space analyses are pivotal to describe and compare organisms'
functional diversity across the tree of life. Yet, there is no single application that streamlines …