TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access

J Kattge, G Bönisch, S Díaz, S Lavorel… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

How to measure response diversity

SRPJ Ross, OL Petchey, T Sasaki… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The insurance effect of biodiversity—that diversity stabilises aggregate ecosystem properties—
is mechanistically underlain by inter‐and intraspecific trait variation in organismal responses …

Spatial self-organization of ecosystems: integrating multiple mechanisms of regular-pattern formation

RM Pringle, CE Tarnita - Annual review of Entomology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Large-scale regular vegetation patterns are common in nature, but their causes are
disputed. Whereas recent theory focuses on scale-dependent feedbacks as a potentially …

TRY–a global database of plant traits

J Kattge, S Diaz, S Lavorel, IC Prentice… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition

E Bouchard, EB Searle, P Drapeau… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

On bird functional diversity: species richness and functional differentiation show contrasting responses to rainfall and vegetation structure in an arid landscape

CL Seymour, RE Simmons, GS Joseph, JA Slingsby - Ecosystems, 2015 - Springer
Biodiversity affects ecosystem function through species' functional traits. Although it is
possible to predict species richness (SR) patterns along environmental gradients, whether …

The acquisitive–conservative axis of leaf trait variation emerges even in homogeneous environments

LD Gorné, S Díaz, V Minden, Y Onoda… - Annals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The acquisitive–conservative axis of plant ecological
strategies results in a pattern of leaf trait covariation that captures the balance between leaf …

Termite mounds alter the spatial distribution of African savanna tree species

AB Davies, CA Baldeck, GP Asner - Journal of Biogeography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Termite mounds form small islands of enhanced water and soil nutrient availability on
otherwise dry and nutrient‐poor hill crests, which can have important impacts on the plant …

Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon

HS Groucutt, PS Breeze, M Guagnin… - The …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Between 10 and six thousand years ago the Arabian Peninsula saw the most recent of the
'Green Arabia'periods, when increased rainfall transformed this generally arid region. The …

Need for shared internal mound conditions by fungus-growing Macrotermes does not predict their species distributions, in current or future climates

CL Seymour, J Korb, GS Joseph… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The large, iconic nests constructed by social species are engineered to create internal
conditions buffered from external climatic extremes, to allow reproduction and/or food …