Recent functional trait studies have shown that trait differences may favour certain species
(environmental filtering) while simultaneously preventing competitive exclusion (niche …

Plants are multifaceted organisms that have evolved numerous solutions to the problem of
establishing, growing and reproducing with limited resources. The intrinsic dimensionality of …

A significant increase in reactive nitrogen (N) added to terrestrial ecosystems through
agricultural fertilization or atmospheric deposition is considered to be one of the most …

Correlations among plant traits often reflect important trade‐offs or allometric relationships in
biological functions like carbon gain, support, water uptake, and reproduction that are …

Trait-based approaches are an alternative to species-based approaches for functionally
linking individual organisms with community structure and dynamics. In the trait-based …

Motivation Indicator values are numerical values used to characterize the ecological niches
of species and to estimate their occurrence along gradients. Indicator values on climatic and …

Plant communities can respond to environmental changes by altering their species
composition and by individuals (within species) adjusting their physiology. These responses …

Plant species composition and community functional structure (ie trait composition at the
community level) result from a hierarchy of environmental filters that constrain which species …

Seeding native plants is a key management practice to counter land degradation across the
globe, yet the majority of seeding efforts fail, limiting our ability to accelerate ecosystem …

Warming, watering and elevated atmospheric CO 2-concentration effects have been
extensively studied separately; however, their combined impact on plants is not well …