Geneticists and breeders are positioned to breed plants with root traits that improve
productivity under drought. However, a better understanding of root functional traits and how …

Belowground competition occurs when plants decrease the growth, survival, or fecundity of
neighbors by reducing available soil resources. Competition belowground can be stronger …

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors …

There is growing recognition that classifying terrestrial plant species on the basis of their
function (into'functional types') rather than their higher taxonomic identity, is a promising way …

Publisher Summary In this chapter, the advances that have been made in understanding the
ecology of the mineral nutrition of wild plants from terrestrial ecosystems have been …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the physiological causes and ecological
consequences of inherent variation in growth rate among higher plants. When grown under …

Standardised procedures have been used to measure 67 traits in 43 common plants of the
British flora. This paper provides an interpretation of the most consistent patterns in the …

Patterns in the dominance of evergreen vs. deciduous plants have long interested
ecologists, biogeographers, and global modellers. But previous models to account for these …

Ecologists are increasingly interested in predicting how intraspecific variation and changing
trait values impact species interactions and community composition. For many traits, much of …

Traditionally, techniques of plant manipulation during restoration have focused on the
reduction of competition by 'problematic'existing vegetation. However, the increasing …