Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation

J Cavender-Bares, FD Schneider, MJ Santos… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Remote sensing has transformed the monitoring of life on Earth by revealing spatial and
temporal dimensions of biological diversity through structural, compositional and functional …

A plant perspective on nitrogen cycling in the rhizosphere

D Moreau, RD Bardgett, RD Finlay, DL Jones… - Functional …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen is the major nutrient limiting plant growth in terrestrial ecosystems, and the
transformation of inert nitrogen to forms that can be assimilated by plants is mediated by soil …

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

JS Joswig, C Wirth, MC Schuman, J Kattge… - Nature ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are
thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …

[كتاب][B] Handbook of trait-based ecology: from theory to R tools

F De Bello, CP Carmona, ATC Dias, L Götzenberger… - 2021‏ - books.google.com
Functional ecology is the branch of ecology that focuses on various functions that species
play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. This accessible guide offers the …

[كتاب][B] Metacommunity ecology, volume 59

MA Leibold, JM Chase - 2018‏ - degruyter.com
Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

The theory of ecological communities (MPB-57)

M Vellend - The theory of ecological communities (MPB-57), 2016‏ - degruyter.com
A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community
ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological …

Revisiting the H oly G rail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

JL Funk, JE Larson, GM Ames, BJ Butterfield… - Biological …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
One of ecology's grand challenges is develo** general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

G Kunstler, D Falster, DA Coomes, F Hui, RM Kooyman… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
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 …

Why can't we predict traits from the environment?

LDL Anderegg - New Phytologist, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant functional traits are powerful ecological tools, but the relationships between plant traits
and climate (or environmental variables more broadly) are often remarkably weak. This …

The world‐wide 'fast–slow'plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

PB Reich - Journal of ecology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
The leaf economics spectrum (LES) provides a useful framework for examining species
strategies as shaped by their evolutionary history. However, that spectrum, as originally …